Boutros Ghali
Concerned about the growing Egyptian nationalist sentiments, officials decided to respond to the Denshawai Incident. The next day, the British Army arrived, arresting fifty-two men in the village (identified as members of the involved scuffle) including Abd-el-Nebi, Hassan Mahfouz, a man called Darweesh, and Zahran. At a summary trial, with both Egyptian and British judges, responsibility for the incident was determined. Hassan, Darweesh, Zahran, and one other man, were convicted of murdering the officer who had died of heatstroke, with the claim that their actions had put him in that deadly position. They were sentenced to death. One of the judges was Boutros Ghali. Abd-el-Nebi and another villager were given life sentences of penal servitude; twenty-six villagers were given various terms of hard labour and ordered to be flogged. The officers claimed that they had been "guests" of the villagers and had done nothing deliberately wrong.