( CNN ) -- 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 , an attorney for one of the men said . 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 . Derrik Sweeney 's father , Kevin Sweeney , told CNN his flight is scheduled to leave Cairo at 10:30 a.m. Saturday ( 3:30 a.m . ET ) and he will arrive in his home state of Missouri on Saturday night . `` He 's extremely excited , '' Kevin Sweeney said of his son . The family was planning to hold a belated Thanksgiving meal Sunday . Joy 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 . Kevin Sweeney said Friday that his son had been `` falsely accused . '' `` He was there observing something that was definitely a phenomenon of the culture , '' he said , noting that Derrik , with a dual major in Arabic and psychology , had gone to Egypt `` not just to learn the language -- he wanted to learn the culture . '' Now , Sweeney said , his son does not plan to return to Egypt . `` This semester is over for him , whether he 's able to finish it remotely or writes it off , '' he said . `` He really does not want to be in Egypt right now . '' Sweeney declined to discuss any possible injuries his son sustained while in police custody . He was not aware of the conditions of the other two men . Also Friday , an Egyptian-American filmmaker arrested amid ongoing protests in Cairo was released , her lawyer said . 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 . CNN 's Hussein Saddique and Michelle Cumbo contributed to this report .
NEW : The father of one student says his son was `` falsely accused '' The three students are headed to the airport to return home , a lawyer says . An Egyptian-American filmmaker has been released , her lawyer says . She was reportedly arrested while filming close to the interior ministry .