3 American Students Held in Protests, Egyptians Sa

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A spokesman for the Justice Ministry, Adel Saeed, said the men had been
arrested by the police on Monday "for throwing Molotov cocktails from
atop the A.U.C. building" approximate Tahrir Square, the epicenter of
Egyptian protest. The university has a university close the square with
several cheap buildings; the chief college creating had been accustom at
government forces during the revolutionary combats in the square in
February.
After contacting their families, the university identified the students
as Gregory Porter, 19, of Glenside, Pa.; Luke Gates, 21, of Bloomington,
Ind.; and Derrik Sweeney, 20, of Jefferson City, Mo.
Messages posted over the weekend apt a Twitter list under the label of
Luke Gates and with references to the American University in Cairo and a
picture resembling 1 of the caught men included several messages
narrated to the protest. One information read: "yeah live ammunition we
have the shells, i was here!!" and comprised a interlock to a news
report above fatal avenue clashes. Another message was: "we were
throwing rocks and 1 guy deliberately threw his call."
The men were studying abroad for the semester and were scheduled to
return to the United States at the end of this term, said a spokeswoman
for the American University in Cairo, Morgan Roth.
As of Tuesday p.m. regional period, the males remained in police
custody, the department spokesman said. "We are waiting because them to
be transferred to the prosecutors bureau," he added. "A lawyer from the
consulate is with them immediately."
The United States Embassy in Cairo said namely it was "incapable to
confirm reports of detention of anyone characteristic American
inhabitant" but that it was investigating "entire reports."
The Egyptian state broadcaster, Nile television, showed police video of
the men standing against a wall in front of a table displaying bottles
fraught with colored fluid identified as firebombs by with several
identification cards and by least one Indiana drivers authorization said
to belong to one of the men.
The arrests of the three Americans came as deadly street clashes among
security forces and protesters stretched into a fourth daytime, with
hundreds of thousands of human converging on Tahrir Square to voice
their opposition to the military-led administration.




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