(Cairo, March 2, 2013) – The newly appointed investigative judge looking into the January violence in Port Said should fully examine police responsibility for unlawful killings during the episode, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the Alkarama Foundation, and Human Rights Watch said today. Forty-two people, including two police officers, died after a court, on January 26, 2013, recommended sentencing 21 Port Said residents to death for killings after a soccer match a year earlier. The confirmation of this sentence and verdict against the remaining 52 defendants is scheduled for March 9.

The Alkarama Foundation warmly invites you to attend the press conference launching its report analysing the evolution of the human rights situation in Egypt since the lifting of the Emergency Law on 31 May 2012.

The press conference will take place on Thursday 21 February 2013 in Cairo, Taha Hussein hall at the Journalists Syndicate, at 12:00 a.m.