Members of the Egyptian Bar Association ended a one-day strike on Sunday to protest the jailing of six colleagues, a statement said.
The association had announced an open strike on Thursday to seek a two-year prison sentence for its colleagues over a court case earlier this month.
The bar association “decided to revoke the suspension of work,” the statement said.
The move came after an appeals court on Sunday ordered the release of the six men and ordered a verdict on February 5.
The lawyers were sentenced on Wednesday for taking part in a fight with three clerks during a court session in Marsa Matrouh on northern Egypt’s Mediterranean coast on January 5, according to the state-run Al-Ahram daily.
The association had previously claimed that the authorities had a “clear intention” to detain the six lawyers “without real justification”, condemning the “rush to bring them to trial without taking time for a proper investigation”.
Last month, in an unusual display of dissent in a country where public demonstrations are banned, thousands of lawyers demonstrated in Cairo against the government’s introduction of a new electronic invoicing system.