Protester seriously injured in Egypt uprising has died

Mahmoud Mohamed, an Egyptian protester profiled last month by The Times after he was seriously injured during the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak, has died due to complications from his injuries, relatives said.

Mohamed, 23, a shoemaker who lived with his family in Cairo, suffered a fractured skull, pelvis and legs and was blinded in one eye when he was attacked and run over by security forces during the protests in Tahrir Square on Jan. 28. He died June 27, relatives said.

His mother, Rahma Mohamed, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Government officials have promised to help the 11,000 people they estimate were injured during the revolution, but so far few have been compensated.

When Rahma Mohamed spoke with The Times from her son’s bedside at Kasr El Aini Hospital in Cairo last month, she said she was frustrated that the new government had failed to pay to have her son treated by surgeons in Europe. A private donor was paying for his care and she had hoped he would make a full recovery and return home.

The day of his death, the Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm posted a video of her outside the hospital, dressed in black and wailing. “May God punish you, Hosni Mubarak, and may your heart be broken over your sons,” she said. “Just like my heart has been broken over my son.”

Last month, interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf promised that the government would create an association to help the injured and the families of the 840 people killed during the protests. It is still unclear how much the government will pay.

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights has sued the government, demanding compensation for the injured.

molly.hennessy-fiske@latimes.com

Special correspondent Ahmed Shawkat in Cairo contributed to this report.