Supports of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi chanting against army chief Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (Photo: Mai Shaheen)
Prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat has dismissed charges against 228 alleged supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, accused of violent acts in August last year, because of a lack of evidence, reported Al-Ahram's Arabic website.
The accused were facing charges of storming and torching the prosecutors' office and the office of a local police traffic unit in Minya’s Beni Mazar in mid-August, following the violent dispersal of two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo which left up to 1,000 people dead, according to local and international rights groups.
After the dispersal of the protests, several security buildings and dozens of churches were attacked.
Since the ouster of Morsi, Islamist militants have stepped up attacks against security leaving so far more than 500 security personnel dead.
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