A negotiator for the Justice Ministry, Adel Saeed, said the men had been arrested along the police above Monday "as throwing Molotov cocktails from atop the A.U.C. creating" approach Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Egyptian protest. The university has a campus near the square with several low mansions; the main college creating had been secondhand along government forces during the revolutionary wars in the square in February.
The Egyptian state broadcaster, Nile television, showed police video of the men standing opposition a walls in front of a table exhibiting bottles filled with colored liquid identified as firebombs along with several identification cards and at fewest one Indiana drivers copyright said to belong to one of the men.
After adjoining their families, the university identified the students for Gregory Porter, 19, of Glenside, Pa.; Luke Gates, 21, of Bloomington, Ind.; and Derrik Sweeney, 20, of Jefferson City, Mo.
The United States Embassy in Cairo said that it was "unable to confirm reports of detention of any specific American citizen" yet namely it was investigating "all reports."
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.
Messages posted over the weekend to a Twitter list below the name of Luke Gates and with references to the American University in Cairo and a picture resembling one of the arrested men comprised several messages narrated to the protest. One information read: "yeah live bullets we have the shells, i was here!!" and embodied a correlate to a newspaper report on deadly avenue clashes. Another message was: "we were throwing rocks and one guy accidentally threw his phone."
The arrests of the 3 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 against to the military-led government.
As of Tuesday afternoon regional period, the men remained in police custody, the department spokesman said. "We are waiting for them to be transferred apt the prosecutors office," he joined. "A attorney from the consulate namely with them immediately."
The Egyptian state broadcaster, Nile television, showed police video of the men standing opposition a walls in front of a table exhibiting bottles filled with colored liquid identified as firebombs along with several identification cards and at fewest one Indiana drivers copyright said to belong to one of the men.
After adjoining their families, the university identified the students for Gregory Porter, 19, of Glenside, Pa.; Luke Gates, 21, of Bloomington, Ind.; and Derrik Sweeney, 20, of Jefferson City, Mo.
The United States Embassy in Cairo said that it was "unable to confirm reports of detention of any specific American citizen" yet namely it was investigating "all reports."
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.
Messages posted over the weekend to a Twitter list below the name of Luke Gates and with references to the American University in Cairo and a picture resembling one of the arrested men comprised several messages narrated to the protest. One information read: "yeah live bullets we have the shells, i was here!!" and embodied a correlate to a newspaper report on deadly avenue clashes. Another message was: "we were throwing rocks and one guy accidentally threw his phone."
The arrests of the 3 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 against to the military-led government.
As of Tuesday afternoon regional period, the men remained in police custody, the department spokesman said. "We are waiting for them to be transferred apt the prosecutors office," he joined. "A attorney from the consulate namely with them immediately."