Opponents of President Mohamed Mursi torched Sharqiya's headquarters of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, late on Tuesday. 

The attack followed the release of Abdel Rahman al-Ber, a member of the Brotherhood’s guidance council, who was detained along with others by the president’s opponents inside a mosque. 

Ahmed Gaber al-Hag from the FJP said that “thugs and remnants of the former regime were able to torch the party’s headquarters in Ibrahimiya City after the release of the Sheikh and the worshipers.”

Hag told Aswat Masriya that the police released the detainees three hours late, which forced pro-Mursi supporters to throw rocks at the mosque where the men were detained.