An Egyptian fact-finding committee charged with investigating the violence following Mohamed Morsi’s ouster last year has been granted more time to complete its work.

The committee is examining the violence surrounding the dispersal of the Rabaa and Nahda protest camps of Morsi supporters in August 2013, which led to hundreds of deaths.

The committee was supposed to present its final report within six months of its formation in December last year, but instead requested a three month extension. Following Saturday’s subsequent extension, the report is expected on 21 November.

The committee said it needed more time to accurately examine the "flow of information" it has been receiving recently from numerous sources.  

It also called on the finance ministry to make available the delayed funds needed for continuing the work.

In August, several human rights groups urged the committee to release its results to the government.

Egypt's cabinet commissioned the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) in September 2013 to collect and record data from the post-Morsi events, but in December 2013 then-president Adly Mansour formed the fact-finding committee, considered to be a weightier investigative tool than the NCHR, which has no judicial power.

In March, the NCHR issued its report on the Rabaa violence, concluding that 632 people had been killed during the dispersal, including eight police officers.