The two officers, a lieutenant colonel and captain with the national security force, had been accused of torturing a Lawyer Karim Hamdy, 27 to death in a Cairo police station in February.
Karim Hamdy was arrested in February on charges of taking part in anti-government protests organised by the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement that the military removed from power in mid-2013.
He died two days after his arrest after sustaining fractures to the ribs, bruises and bleeding in the chest and head, the initial forensic report showed.
More than 200 lawyers are behind bars in Egypt for defending the government’s Islamist opponents, according to attorneys and human rights groups.
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