The Qena Criminal Court acquitted Qurashī Abū al-Hajjāj and Hindāwī Muhammad Sayyīd Hassan on the eve of the new year in 2012 (on the eve of January 7, 2010) that left six people dead.

[Reviewer's Note: The journalist committed a mistake in dates as he wrote that the massacre has taken place on the eve of the new year in 2012 while it actually took place on the eve of the Coptic Christmas, January 7, 2010]

The prime defendant, Muhammad Ahmad Hassan, aka Hamām al-Kammūnī, was executed on October 10, 2011. [Usāmah al-Hawwārī, al-Ahrām, Feb. 21, p. 23] Read original text in Arabic