Elizabeth Dickinson/CPJ Guest Blogger

Elizabeth Dickinson is author of the Kindle Single Who Shot Ahmed? A mystery unravels in Bahrain’s botched Arab Spring.

Masked protesters carry portraits of Ahmed Ismail Hassan at a demonstration in Salmabad village, south of Manama, Bahrain, April 10, 2013. (Reuters)

Who Shot Ahmed?

On the night he was shot, Ahmed Ismail Hassan al Samadi was working. Protestors had gathered along a highway near his home in a small Bahraini village. With his handheld camcorder, Ahmed filmed as they marched. He filmed as security forces arrived in marked and unmarked cars. The citizen journalist had tens of hours of…

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