A student activist says police tried to intimidate her out of protesting with a middle-of-the-night arrest before the case against her was dropped.
Cherish Kuehlmann, 24, was hit with a trespass charge following a student-organised housing crisis rally at the Reserve Bank of Australia in February.
The charge was withdrawn ahead of a hearing scheduled on Wednesday at Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court.
Ms Kuehlmann's lawyer Sidnie Sarang said there would be an application to have the prosecution pay defence legal costs, scheduled for November.
Speaking outside court, the 24-year-old told AAP the withdrawal of the charge "really puts in perspective what the point of all this was".
"It was to intimidate me," she said.
"Hours and hours after the protest, (police) showed up to my house, arrested me in the middle of the night … they said it was because they didn't want me to attend protests.
"This was very explicit and overt."
Ms Kuehlmann was placed on bail conditions preventing her from going within 2km of Sydney's Town Hall, but those restrictions were dispensed with by a magistrate in March.
She then spent several months awaiting a hearing.
"While it's been a pain, none of it has actually deterred me," Ms Kuehlmann said.
"NSW Police definitely chose the wrong person to mess with and it's actually had the opposite effect, it's only galvanised me to want to continue fighting."
A NSW Police spokesperson told AAP the charge against Ms Kuehlmann was withdrawn after the complainant opted not to proceed with it.
