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Salah and his wife Fatma in their son Gika’s room in Abdeen, downtown Cairo. Gaber Salah, a teenaged activist known by the nickname “Gika,” was shot dead by security forces in November 2012 on the first anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud street clashes. Thousands of people marched across Cairo for his funeral and his face became widely known and reproduced as graffiti on walls and t-shirts.