After negotiations failed to end a three month long sit in being staged by Sudanese refugees in a public square in central Cairo, security forces took measures to end the protest, resulting in a stampede, which killed 25 Sudanese. 76 Egyptian policemen were also injured after demonstrators hurled small gas cylinders and other missiles at them. Popular Egyptian actor and UNHCR goodwill ambassador ‘Ādil Imām, expressed regret over the incidents and the deaths of a number of "Sudanese brothers and injury of Egyptian policemen."