20. The Complainants allege that families of the deceased were denied access to the bodies of their loved ones for extended periods and were not able to provide for timely and religiously or culturally appropriate burials, nor did the authorities allow them to transfer the bodies of their deceased next-of-kin to Sudan for burial. 21. The Complainants say that no investigation has been undertaken by the Egyptian authorities with respect to events of 30 December 2005 nor has any individual or institution been held to account in any way for those events. They allege that attempts to impel such an investigation or secure an independent inquiry have proved futile. 22. They inform the Commission that the events to which this Application relates have been the subject of international condemnation, including from Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations 5 and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres.6 23. They state that the United Nations Committee for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers had also expressed concern that the inquiry into the events of 30 December 2005 had been closed without clarifying the circumstances leading to the deaths of the 27 7 Sudanese migrants. That the Committee was also alarmed at reports that eyewitnesses were not heard in the course of the investigation.8 They state that the Committee had recommended that the investigation into the events of 30 December 2005 be reopened in order to clarify the circumstances leading to the deaths and that measures be adopted to prevent the occurrence of similar events in the future.9 Annan Slams Cairo Protest Deaths,” CNN, 30 December 2005, available at <http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/12/30/egypt.sudanese/index.html. 6 “Twenty Sudanese Die in Cairo Raid,” BBC, 30 December 2005, available at <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4568340.stm>. 7 The number of fatalities acknowledged by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to the Complainants, which is lower than their own estimate of 53. 8 Concluding observations of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Issued on 27 April 2007 after consideration of Egypt’s report accessed 3 May 2007 from http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/docs/co_advanceversion.doc para 24. 9 Ibid n 12 para 25 5 6