A funeral march will start at noon for Emad Effat, member of the Dar Al-Ifta religious authority, who was shown on video dying of a gunshot wound sustained during an attack by security forces on Cabinet protest Emad Effat, a senior cleric at Dar Al-Ifta, the official body that issues Islamic fatwas (edicts), was killed Friday during a military attack on the sit-in being staged by protesters at the Cabinet building. A video showing Effat dying and revealing the gunshot to his chest has been circulating on social media sites since Friday. Dar El-Ifta issued an official statement commemorating their martyr and condemned the attack on the Cabinet protest. A funeral march is planned to take place at 12 noon Saturday, starting from Al-Azhar Mosque, the home of Egypt's religious authority. Activists have been circulating the funeral date and time. The Maspero Youth Movement, a Coptic Christian youth group, called on all to participate and pray for the martyr. Eight protesters have been killed, according to numbers released by the Ministry of Health, with 300 injured in attacks by security forces against protesters who had been camping at the Cabinet headquarters in downtown Cairo.
