UN Help Sought To Halt Organ Theft in Sinai

BRUSSELS (IDN) - An international non-governmental organisation has called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council, the International Criminal Court and the European Union to help put a halt to organ trafficking in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

The Rome-based EveryOne Group, an organization operating in defence of human and civil rights, has evidence that criminal gangs involved in human trafficking are forcing sub-Saharan refugees lacking money to have their organs removed as payment for their demands for large amounts of cash to take them into Israel.

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