Egypt releases eight Indonesians

Egypt releases eight Indonesians

CAIRO: Security authorities in Eqypt have released eight
Indonesian religious students after finding no evidence of their
involvement in terrorism.

The Al-Azhar University students had been detained for five
days for questioning.

"This morning, they walked free as the authorities found no
evidence with which to charge them," Nurwenda, an official at the
Indonesian Embassy in Cairo, said on Sunday. He refused to
provide more details regarding the arrests.

Antara sources said local police arrested the Indonesian
students, three of them identified as Furkan, Masyhuri, and
Syarif, at their rented house in the Helwan area, some 50
kilometers south of Cairo, on Wednesday morning.

During the arrests, the police seized a picture of Al-Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden, books on radical Islamic thought and news
clippings on radical groups.

Indonesian Ambassador Bachtiar Aly had earlier arranged for
legal assistance to be provided to the students. -- Antara