Nearly three years after he was violently beaten by armed attackers and later prosecuted under Guyana’s controversial Cybercrime Act, political activist Brian Mac Intosh, popularly known as “Bryan Max,” walked free on Thursday after a magistrate ruled that the prosecution had failed to establish a case against him.

Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore, sitting at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, dismissed both charges against Mac Intosh after upholding a no-case submission made by his attorney-at-law, Dawn Cush, at the close of the prosecution’s case.

Police Legal Adviser Mandel Moore appeared for the prosecution.