Three American students have been arrested in Cairo as unrest continues in the city, reports the Washington Post. The students are abroad in Cairo through the American University in Cairo, and attend Indiana University, Drexel University, and Georgetown University.
The students, all male, are accused of participating in violent demonstrations in the city:
The state television broadcast said the arrested Americans were accused of throwing flaming canisters at Egyptian security forces, part of what Egypt’s military generals are calling foreign efforts to stir the anti-government protests. American University in Cairo President Lisa Anderson said the university is working closely with the U.S. Embassy to free them.
“The three boys were throwing molotov cocktails and had no passports on them when they were picked up,” Adel Saeed, a spokesman for Egypt’s general prosecutor’s office, told CNN.
As demonstrators streamed into Tahrir Square on Tuesday morning in response to calls for a “million-man march,” Egypt’s military leaders held a meeting with political forces on in hopes of diffusing the deepening political crisis.
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