In another development, the al-Minya Criminal Court and the Emergency Supreme State Prosecution Court sentenced 12 to rigorous life term and acquitted eight others for fomenting sectarian strife in Abū Qurqās, al-Minya, and endangering national uinity in the Upper Egyptian governorate.

The convi had illegally assembled with the aim of using violence and force against Muslims, leaving Mi’bid Abū Zayd and ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Qādir ‘Alī killed. [Mustafá Fū’ād, al-Ahrām, May 22, p. 19] Read original text in Arabiccts