Qena Criminal Court last Monday upheld the acquittal of Qurashi Abu-Haggag and Hindawi Mohamed who were being retried for their role in the killing of six Copts and a Muslim in the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi two years ago
Qena Criminal Court last Monday upheld the acquittal of Qurashi Abu-Haggag and Hindawi Mohamed who were being retried for their role in the killing of six Copts and a Muslim in the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi two years ago. The principle culprit, the 41-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Hussein, commonly known as Hammam al-Kamouni, was last October hanged after he had been handed a death sentence for his crime.
On Coptic Christmas Eve on 6 January 2010, as the Copts left church after Midnight Mass, Kamouni opened fire from a moving car on the congregation. Bola Atef, Abanoub Kamal, Ayman Zakariya, Bishoi Farid, Rafiq Rifaat, Mina Hilmy, and Ayman Sadeq—a Muslim who had come to wish two of his Coptic friends a Happy Christmas—were killed. Haggag and Hindawi had been with him in the car, according to eye-witnesses, egging him on.
Watani International
22 February 2012