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'''Khaled Mohamed Saeed''' ({{lang-ar|خالد محمد سعيد}} {{IPA-arz|ˈxæːled mæˈħæmmæd sæˈʕiːd|IPA}}; 27 January 1982 – 6 June 2010) was a young Egyptian man whose death in police custody in the [[Sidi Gaber]] area of [[Alexandria]] on 6 June 2010 helped incite the [[Egyptian Revolution of 2011]]. Photos of his disfigured corpse spread throughout online communities and incited outrage over allegations that he was beaten to death by Egyptian security forces. A prominent [[Facebook]] group, "We are all Khaled Said",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed.co.uk|title=Facebook group generated by Khaled Mohamed Saeed's assassination |publisher=Facebook|accessdate=8 August 2012}}</ref> moderated by [[Wael Ghonim]], brought attention to his death and contributed to growing discontent in the weeks leading up to the [[Egyptian Revolution of 2011]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/anger-on-the-streets-of-cairo|title=Anger on the streets of Cairo|publisher=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)]]|date=13 June 2010|accessdate=13 July 2010}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e41c5faa-3475-11e0-9ebc-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1DfvBdbyf|title=Google worker is Egypt's Facebook hero|date=9 February 2011|work=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref> In October 2011, two Egyptian police officers were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison for beating Saeed to death.<ref name=bbc_convict /> They were granted a retrial and sentenced to ten years in prison on 3 March 2014.<ref name=sentence>{{Cite news|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/95747/Egypt/Politics-/Khaled-Saids-killers-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-jai.aspx|title=Khaled Said's killers sentenced to ten years in jail|publisher=''[[Al-Ahram]]''|date=3 March 2014|accessdate=3 March 2014}}</ref>
==Personal life==
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==''We are all Khaled Said''==
Among those who saw the photo, was Google marketing executive [[Wael Ghonim]]. Ghonim was located in [[Dubai]] at the time of the incident and decided to create a [[Facebook]] memorial page for Said, called "We are all Khaled Said" within five days of his death. The page attracted hundreds of thousands of followers, becoming Egypt's biggest dissident Facebook page.<ref name="NYTFB">{{Cite news|title=Facebook and YouTube Fuel the Egyptian Protests|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06face.html|date=5 February 2011|last=Preston|first=Jennifer|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="NATO">{{cite web|url=http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2011/Social_Medias/Egypt_Facebook/EN/index.htm|title= Egypt and Facebook: Time to Update Its Status|work=Nato Review|publisher=[[NATO]]|year=2011|accessdate=19 March 2011|last=Heaven|first= Will}}</ref> Support for Said rapidly spread,<ref name=ABC/><ref name=NATO/> with many Facebook members using his photograph for their own profiles.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/africa/undercover-police-arrested-over-beating-death-of-egyptian-man
On January 27, 2011, the administrator of the webpage, [[Wael Ghonim]] was arrested for 12 days and the internet was shut temporarily but later restored. Ghonim wanted to remain anonymous but could not avoid Egyptian security forces. It later became apparent that Wael recruited an Egyptian political activist named [[AbdelRahman Mansour|AbdulRahman Mansour]] to become his co-admin.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_let_s_design_social_media_that_drives_real_change|title=Wael Ghonim TED Talk}}</ref> Both administrators received the credit for the creation of the site. Under the anonymous name "el shaheed" ("the martyr"), they were able to post and moderate the Arabic Facebook page. The involvement of Abdul Rahman Mansour in the creation of this page caused great controversy because he was a member of the January 25 coalition as well as the author of an article on the Muslim Brotherhood English website titled, "Mastermind Behind Egypt Uprising"<ref name=WAAKS /> This controversy revealed that Abdul Rahman Mansour previously had involvement with the Muslim brotherhood. In a 2011 interview, Ghonim blamed the regime for the people's anger, saying that blocking access to Facebook made them even angrier and led them to protests in the streets.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/wael-ghonim/|title=Internet activist Wael Ghonim, Part 1 {{!}} Interviews {{!}} Tavis Smiley {{!}} PBS|newspaper=Tavis Smiley {{!}} PBS|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wael-ghonim-and-egypts-new-age-revolution/2/|title=Wael Ghonim and Egypt's New Age Revolution|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
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==Alexandria protests==
On 25 June 2010, [[Mohamed ElBaradei]], former head of the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]], led a rally in Alexandria against alleged abuses by the police and visited Saeed's family to offer condolences.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201062642955204618.html|title=ElBaradei leads anti-torture rally|publisher=[[Al Jazeera English]]|date=26 June 2010|accessdate=13 July 2010}}</ref><ref>Nadia Abou el Magd, [http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/africa/egypts-elbaradei-leads-thousands-in-protest-against-police?pageCount=0 "Egypt's ElBaradei leads thousands in protest against police"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307144000/http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/africa/egypts-elbaradei-leads-thousands-in-protest-against-police?pageCount=0 |date=7 March 2011 }}, ''The National'', 26 June 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2011.</ref> Protests over Saeed's death also occurred in [[Cairo]]'s [[Tahrir Square]] and in front of the Egyptian Embassy in [[London]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Weekend protests in US and UK against Khaled Saeed's murder|author=Heba El Kodsy |author2=Mohamed Hany|url=http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/49944|newspaper=Almasry Alyoum|date=17 June 2010|accessdate=26 January 2011}}</ref> Thirty of the protesters in Tahrir Square were arrested by Central Security officers after the "security personnel vigorously beat back the crowds to keep them from reaching the ministry building."<ref name="San Diego"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Security thwarts protest over Saeed's death|author1=Mostafa |author2=ElMarsfawy |author3=Mohsan Semika |author4=Mohamed Hany |url=http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/50719|newspaper=Almasry Alyoum|date=21 June 2010|accessdate=26 January 2011}}</ref>
==Impact on the 2011 Egyptian revolution==
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