Brutalities of African Migrants in the Sinai Demand Investigation Followed by the date: November 18, 2012
For the past year, accounts have been trickling out of the Sinai about grave human rights abuses of migrants fleeing war and economic hardship in Eritrea and Sudan. Allegations of slavery,torture, rape and the removal of organs have emerged and estimates of the number of victims range in the thousands. Graphic photographs of corpses with sewn up abdominal cavities and emptied eye sockets pulled from desert pits and mortuary freezers are circulating on the internet and on Egyptian television. Testimonies gathered by activists from various points along known trafficking/smuggling routes are beginning to provide corroboration of such crimes. COFS is mobilizing in the call for international credible investigations that must be launched to determine the truth about the alleged abuses.
Slaves freed after
CNN documentary
17th Nov 2011
Masr
Al Youm: Human
organ trafficking war waged between Sinai Bedouins
14th Nov 2011
The Mail Online: Organ
snatchers of the Sinai desert: The doctors harvesting body parts stolen from
live donors to sell to rich patients in Cairo
14th Nov 2011
Assenna.com: Eritrens
in Seattle Hold Candlelight Vigils, Demonstrations
14th Nov 2011
CNN
25 minute documentary: Death in the Desert
5th Nov 2011
CNN
WATCH:
Refugees smuggled to Israel face organ theft in Sinai
4th Nov 2011
Youm 7: African rights
groups, news outlets, condemn organ trafficking
4th Nov 2011
CNN:
Refugees face organ theft in Sinai
3rd Nov 2011
The
Daily News Egypt: Eritrean
dissident in Cairo slams human trafficking through Sinai
3rd Nov 2011
One
Minute News.com: African
Refugees Fall Victim to Organ Theft
3rd
Nov 2011
Youm7:
Fact-finding commission on organ trafficking to
convene
1st Nov 2011 (translated in
English 2nd Nov)
Youm
7 news: Organ Trafficking (Arabic video)
31st Oct 2011
Youm7 reveals the
secrets of organ trafficking in Sinai
31st Oct 2011 (translated in
English 1st Nov)
25online.tv report on the crimes committed in Sinai
(Arabic video with some English subtitles):
28th Oct 2011