A criminal court on Monday sentenced two Coptic Christians to three years in prison for stealing weapons from soldiers during a 2011 clash that left more than two dozen Copts dead. The clash took place on Oct. 9, 2011, when a group of Coptic Christians marched to the state television building to protest discrimination under the generals then ruling Egypt. Video of the episode showed soldiers who were guarding the building driving over protesters with armored vehicles and firing into the crowd. Twenty-seven people died, mostly Coptic Christians. The military has maintained that weapons were stolen from its soldiers and then fired at them and the protesters, causing the soldiers in the vehicles to panic. Last year, the army charged three soldiers who were said to have lost control of their vehicles with the “wrongful killing” of some of the protesters. But a military court acquitted them. Lawyers for the two Coptic Christians convicted Monday said they would appeal.