CAIRO, Jan 6 (Aswat Masriya) - Egypt’s Cassation Prosecution recommended on Wednesday that an appeal filed against a death sentence handed down to 149 defendants be accepted, in the case on the storming of the Kerdasa police station.

The prosecution at the Court of Cassation recommended that the defendants, who include one woman, would be retried in a different court circuit.

Recommendations issued by the Cassation Prosecution are not binding to the Court of Cassation.

In February 2015, a Giza court handed down death sentences to 149 defendants and 34 others in absentia. 

In mid-August 2013, Kerdasa police station was attacked in the aftermath of the violent dispersal of Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda Square sit-ins, in support of then president Mohamed Mursi who was removed by the military in July.

The prosecution charged the defendants with participating in the attack and killing 11 police officers and two civilians.

They were also charged with the attempted murder of 10 other policemen, damaging the police station’s building, setting ablaze cars and armoured vehicles belonging to the police and possession of ammunition.