Those arrested include:

* · Ahmad Seif Al Islam (Hisham Mubarak Law Center)
* · Mona Al Masry (Hisham Mubarak Law Center)
* · Khaled Ali (Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights)
* · Nada Sadek
* · Mohamed El Taher
* · Two members of Amnesty International
* · And a member of Human Rights Watch

Alkarama has also been informed that security forces and unidentified men in civilian clothes have been harassing and arresting journalists, searching their hotel rooms, especially in the Hilton Hotel, and confiscating cameras and other equipment.

Alkarama severely condemns the Egyptian government for this serious attack on human rights defenders and this further repression of freedom of expression in Egypt. It has urgently communicated this information to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights and on the Special Rapporteurs on human rights defenders and on freedom of expression calling on them to take action on these violations.