At least 22 people were arrested on Monday after hundreds in Port Said protested death sentences against 10 residents for their part in a deadly 2012 football riot.
Security officials say police have arrested 22 people after hundreds went on a rampage in Egypt's coastal city of Port Said to protest death sentences for ten residents for their part in a deadly 2012 football riot.
The officials say protesters set tires ablaze, torched two police cars and pelted policemen with rocks on Monday night in the Mediterranean city's low-income residential area of Fatimah al-Zahraa.
The officials spoke on Tuesday on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to talk to reporters.
Egypt's highest appeals court last week upheld the death sentences against the ten for murder and other charges.
The 2012 riot - which killed at least 70 people - marked Egypt's worst ever incident of violence at a football stadium and occurred following a match between the Port Said based team al-Masry and Cairo's al-Ahly.
Clashes broke out at the fixture after al-Ahly fans allegedly displayed banners insulting the local team, prompting attacks by al-Masry fans armed with knives, clubs and rocks.
Many of those killed were crushed following a stampede as fans tried to escape the ensuing violence. Others, according to eyewitnesses, were thrown or fell from the terraces of the Port Said stadium.
