Three American college students detained in Cairo since Monday night were released from police custody Friday and were headed to the airport to return to the United States. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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The men will board three separate commercial flights to return home, according to Joy Sweeney, the mother of Derrik Sweeney.
Theodore Simon, an attorney for the family of Gregory Porter, told CNN that “his parents anxiously await his return.”
The three — Porter, Sweeney and Luke Gates — were arrested after being accused of throwing Molotov cocktails in the unrest that has rattled the country since last week. Their release was ordered Thursday.
Joy Sweeney said earlier Friday that the paperwork to release the men had been completed and she expected her son to return to Missouri late Saturday.
Sweeney said her son told her Wednesday in a telephone call that “they had done nothing wrong.” All had been attending American University in Cairo on a semester-long, study-abroad program.
Sweeney, 19, is a Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Missouri; Porter, 19, is from Glenside, Pennsylvania, and attends Drexel University in Philadelphia; and Gates, 21, of Bloomington, Indiana, goes to Indiana University.
Adel Saeed, the general prosecutor’s spokesman, said Wednesday that a bag filled with empty bottles, a bottle of gasoline, a towel and a camera had been found with the three American students.
“They denied the bag belonged to them and said it belonged to two of their friends,” Saeed said.
An Egyptian-American filmmaker arrested amid ongoing protests in Cairo also has been released, her lawyer said Friday. There were no immediate details about the release of documentarian Jehane Noujaim, which was confirmed by her lawyer, Ragia Omran.
Film producer Karim Amer said Wednesday that Noujaim — whose works include “The Control Room,” about Al-Jazeera and the United States during the early days of the Iraq War — was arrested while filming near the Interior Ministry building in Cairo.

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