The morning show on state-owned Nile News TV interviewed Majdi Yasin of the Egyptian Association for Human Rights, who condemned the stateofemergency as a "tool used by the old regime reflecting a weak ruler and government".
Referring to this violence and what happened Saturday in Port Said, Information Minister Salah Abdul Maqsoud read a statement on stateTV saying the government was considering implementing a stateofemergency in some areas.