minmia3i
2011-11-23 06:10:54 UTC
A spokesman for the Justice Ministry, Adel Saeed, said the men had bee
arrested by the police on Monday "for throwing Molotov cocktails fro
atop the A.U.C. building" approximate Tahrir Square, the epicenter o
Egyptian protest. The university has a university close the square wit
several cheap buildings; the chief college creating had been accustom a
government forces during the revolutionary combats in the square i
February.
After contacting their families, the university identified the student
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 o
Luke Gates and with references to the American University in Cairo and
picture resembling 1 of the caught men included several message
narrated to the protest. One information read: "yeah live ammunition w
have the shells, i was here!!" and comprised a interlock to a new
report above fatal avenue clashes. Another message was: "we wer
throwing rocks and 1 guy deliberately threw his call."
The men were studying abroad for the semester and were scheduled t
return to the United States at the end of this term, said a spokeswoma
for the American University in Cairo, Morgan Roth.
As of Tuesday p.m. regional period, the males remained in polic
custody, the department spokesman said. "We are waiting because them t
be transferred to the prosecutors bureau," he added. "A lawyer from th
consulate is with them immediately."
The United States Embassy in Cairo said namely it was "incapable t
confirm reports of detention of anyone characteristic America
inhabitant" but that it was investigating "entire reports."
The Egyptian state broadcaster, Nile television, showed police video o
the men standing against a wall in front of a table displaying bottle
fraught with colored fluid identified as firebombs by with severa
identification cards and by least one Indiana drivers authorization sai
to belong to one of the men.
The arrests of the three Americans came as deadly street clashes amon
security forces and protesters stretched into a fourth daytime, wit
hundreds of thousands of human converging on Tahrir Square to voic
their opposition to the military-led administration
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minmia3i
arrested by the police on Monday "for throwing Molotov cocktails fro
atop the A.U.C. building" approximate Tahrir Square, the epicenter o
Egyptian protest. The university has a university close the square wit
several cheap buildings; the chief college creating had been accustom a
government forces during the revolutionary combats in the square i
February.
After contacting their families, the university identified the student
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 o
Luke Gates and with references to the American University in Cairo and
picture resembling 1 of the caught men included several message
narrated to the protest. One information read: "yeah live ammunition w
have the shells, i was here!!" and comprised a interlock to a new
report above fatal avenue clashes. Another message was: "we wer
throwing rocks and 1 guy deliberately threw his call."
The men were studying abroad for the semester and were scheduled t
return to the United States at the end of this term, said a spokeswoma
for the American University in Cairo, Morgan Roth.
As of Tuesday p.m. regional period, the males remained in polic
custody, the department spokesman said. "We are waiting because them t
be transferred to the prosecutors bureau," he added. "A lawyer from th
consulate is with them immediately."
The United States Embassy in Cairo said namely it was "incapable t
confirm reports of detention of anyone characteristic America
inhabitant" but that it was investigating "entire reports."
The Egyptian state broadcaster, Nile television, showed police video o
the men standing against a wall in front of a table displaying bottle
fraught with colored fluid identified as firebombs by with severa
identification cards and by least one Indiana drivers authorization sai
to belong to one of the men.
The arrests of the three Americans came as deadly street clashes amon
security forces and protesters stretched into a fourth daytime, wit
hundreds of thousands of human converging on Tahrir Square to voic
their opposition to the military-led administration
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minmia3i
