The whereabouts of Egyptian and international human rights activists, lawyers and journalists arrested during a raid on the Hisham Mubarak Law Center in Cairo on the afternoon of 3 February 2011 remains unknown. Amnesty International is concerned that all those detained may be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Among more than 30 people arrested, those detained include; Said Haddadi, an Amnesty International researcher and a female staff member of the organization; Daniel Williams, a Human Rights Watch researcher; Ahmed Seif Al Islam, the former director of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center; a French and a Portuguese journalist; and at least nine other lawyers associated with the Hisham Mubarak Law Center or volunteers from the Front to Defend Egypt's Protesters. Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience. Eye-witnesses outside the building where the detainees were arrested said they were taken away with a military escort. Colleagues of the arrested Egyptian lawyers believe that the group is being detained by the military police at Camp 75, a military camp located in Manshiyet el-Bakri, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Cairo. When lawyers went to Camp 75 and requested access to their detained colleagues, the army officials refused to confirm that they had any of the missing in detention. The Egyptian authorities have also not provided foreign embassies with any information about where the detainees are being kept, or provided a reason for their arrest. Amnesty
