CAIRO, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian public prosecution said in a statement on Thursday that it released a number of foreigners who were arrested during recent protests in Egypt in response to requests from their embassies.

"Their embassies vowed to deport them immediately outside the country," said the prosecution's statement, which didn't mention the number of foreigners or their nationalities.

A few foreigners were arrested along with hundreds of Egyptians in the wake of protests that took place in several Egyptian cities on Sept. 20.

They faced charges of cooperating with the currently-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to incite protests and cause chaos and disorder in Egypt.

The prosecution said last week that it questioned about 1,000 defendants who were arrested during the protests, including two foreigners: a Palestinian Islamist and a Dutch with a camera drone.

Meanwhile, recent official statements from Jordan and Sudan said that Egypt released two Jordanians and a Sudanese who were arrested during the protests.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has previously dismissed the corruption allegations that led to the protests as "lies and slander," urging the Egyptian media to confront such defamation campaigns. Enditem

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