Chapter 8 • International Legal Standards for the Protection of Persons Deprived of Their Liberty (c) The identity of the law enforcement officials concerned; (d) Precise information concerning the place of custody.” Moreover, according to Principle 12(2) of the Body of Principles, “such records shall be communicated to the detained person, or his counsel, if any, in the form prescribed by law.” Article 10 of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance goes even further in this respect by stipulating with regard to any person deprived of liberty that: “2. Accurate information on the detention of such persons and their place or places of detention, including transfers, shall be made promptly available to their family members, their counsel or to any other persons having a legitimate interest in the information unless a wish to the contrary has been manifested by the persons concerned. 3. An official up-to-date register of all persons deprived of their liberty shall be maintained in every place of detention. Additionally, each State shall take steps to maintain similar centralized registers. The information contained in these registers shall be made available to the persons mentioned in the preceding paragraph, to any judicial or other competent and independent national authority and to any other competent authority entitled under the law of the State concerned or any international legal instrument to which a State concerned is a party, seeking to trace the whereabouts of a detained person.” ***** The Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons was elaborated in response to the tens of thousands of persons who disappeared in the Americas in the 1970s and 1980s. Article XI thereof provides that: “The States Parties shall establish and maintain official up-to-date registries of their detainees and, in accordance with their domestic law, shall make them available to relatives, judges, attorneys, any other person having a legitimate interest, and other authorities.” ***** With regard to the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court has specified that: “The recording of accurate holding data concerning the date, time and location of detainees, as well as the grounds for the detention and the name of the persons effecting it, is necessary for the detention of an individual to be compatible with the requirements of lawfulness for the purposes of Article 5 § 1”.71 71 Eur. Court HR, Case of Çakici v. Turkey, judgment of 8 July 1999, Reports 1999-IV, para. 105 at p. 616. 336 Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers