CAIRO
An Egyptian court on Sunday cleared 27 Muslim Brotherhood members of violence charges, a judicial source said.
The Giza Criminal Court acquitted Brotherhood leader Mohamed Amer and 26 other members of charges of storming a police station in Ossem village, southwest of Cairo, in mid-2013, the source added.
Prosecutors had accused the defendants of inciting murder and joining a 'terrorist group' – in reference to the Brotherhood.
The charges are related to the turmoil that followed the deadly dispersal of a mass protest camp in support of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo's Rabaa Square in mid-2013. Hundreds of protesters were killed in the dispersal.
Egypt has been dogged by instability since the 2013 military coup against Morsi, the country's first freely elected president, following protests against his rule.
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