It's a shame that the Egyptian Army doesn't do anything about this.
Rights group: Egypt turns blind eye to human trafficking in Sinai
A video accompanying the Human Rights Watch report on human trafficking in Egypt's Sinai Penninsula
By Laura King
February 11, 2014, 9:42 a.m.
CAIRO -- Scarred, terrified and systematically tortured, the victims of human traffickers in the Sinai peninsula have been largely abandoned to their fate by Egyptian authorities, a leading human rights group alleged in a report released Tuesday.
The report by New York-based Human Rights Watch details a brutal extortion racket in which victims, most of them would-be migrants from Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, are beaten, burned and mutilated by smugglers while their anguished relatives contacted by mobile phone are forced to listen to their screams.
If their families agree to wire money to pay a ransom, the report said, the captives may escape further torture. But many simply disappear into desert graves.
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Rights group: Egypt turns blind eye to human trafficking in Sinai
A video accompanying the Human Rights Watch report on human trafficking in Egypt's Sinai Penninsula
By Laura King
February 11, 2014, 9:42 a.m.
CAIRO -- Scarred, terrified and systematically tortured, the victims of human traffickers in the Sinai peninsula have been largely abandoned to their fate by Egyptian authorities, a leading human rights group alleged in a report released Tuesday.
The report by New York-based Human Rights Watch details a brutal extortion racket in which victims, most of them would-be migrants from Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, are beaten, burned and mutilated by smugglers while their anguished relatives contacted by mobile phone are forced to listen to their screams.
If their families agree to wire money to pay a ransom, the report said, the captives may escape further torture. But many simply disappear into desert graves.
Continue reading at:
Rights group: Egypt turns blind eye to human trafficking in Sinai - latimes.com
