Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against a protester who said he was dragged off a Manhattan street by Egyptian government officials, beaten and whipped with a metal chain and then wrongly arrested by New York City police.
Yasin El Sammak, 22, and his 15-year-old brother had faced assault and strangulation charges following the altercation, which unfolded last month during a small pro-Palestinian protest outside an Egyptian diplomatic building.
