PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An American student arrested during a protest in Cairo and later freed by an Egyptian court is back home in Philadelphia.
Nineteen-year-old Gregory Porter arrived at Philadelphia International Airport on Saturday afternoon. He is from nearby Glenside, Pa.
Porter and two other U.S. students had been arrested on the roof of a university building near Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square last Sunday. Officials accused them of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters.
Twenty-one-year-old Luke Gates of Bloomington, Ind., and 19-year-old Derrik Sweeney of Jefferson City, Mo., also left the Egyptian capital and were expected to arrive on U.S. soil on Saturday.
