Eritrean hostage given five day to gather ransom or be harvested for organs by Sinai traffickers
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Thursday, 22 November 2012, 12:43 (EST)

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has learned that an Eritrean refugee held hostage by Bedouin traffickers for three months has been given five days to raise US$25,000 or face illegal organ harvesting. His case highlights a continuing lack of protection and assistance for refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa, who are routinely abducted and abused by people traffickers in the Sinai Peninsular.

Twenty-two year old Philemon Semere escaped from Eritrea to Ethiopia in 2010, where he sang in the church choir in Adi Harish Refugee Camp. Early in 2012, he travelled to Sudan and was attempting to reach Israel when he was abducted by Rashaida traffickers and taken to one of several torture and extortion facilities in the Sinai. He was beaten and abused regularly and at that time his captors asked him to source US$ 33,000 to ensure his release, or lose a kidney.

In October, Mr Semere was moved to another facility where he was subjected to electric shock torture, amongst other things. This morning his captors informed him he had five days to either produce US$ 25,000 or lose a kidney.

In a telephone conversation with CSW’s Special Ambassador, Rev Stuart Windsor, a clearly distraught Mr. Semere confirmed that “if they don’t get the money, they will kill me in five days”.

The abduction, torture and extortion of refugees in purpose-built facilities in the Sinai has been extensively documented since 2010. Hostages are generally bound for extended periods; deprived of adequate food; given salty water to drink, and tortured using extreme methods, including electric shocks and branding, while friends and relatives are obliged to listen via telephone to their screams and pleas for assistance. Women are particularly vulnerable to abuse, including gang-rape. Some hostages have been used as slave labour. Initially, demands for payment ranged between US$3000 and US$8000, but have increased enormously. When payments are not forthcoming, vital organs are illegally harvested in unhygienic conditions, generally resulting in the death of the person concerned.

CSW’s Special Ambassador Stuart Windsor said, “Our heartfelt prayers are with Philemon Semere as he faces this horrific ultimatum. The abduction and torture of human beings for profit and the illegal traffic in their organs is one of the most abhorrent forms of modern slavery and an appalling affront to human dignity. The continuation of this phenomenon is a terrible indictment of the failure of several signatories to international and regional refugee conventions to provide adequate protection for this vulnerable community. CSW urges the Egyptian authorities to act decisively to rescue Semere and others in his position, and to combat trafficking by ensuring perpetrators are brought to justice. However, we also recognise that trafficking is an international crime that spans national borders, and therefore call for concerted international action to bring this appalling phenomenon to an end.”
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Eritrean hostage given five day to gather ransom or be harvested for organs by Sinai traffickers
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Thursday, 22 November 2012, 12:43 (EST)

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has learned that an Eritrean refugee held hostage by Bedouin traffickers for three months has been given five days to raise US$25,000 or face illegal organ harvesting. His case highlights a continuing lack of protection and assistance for refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa, who are routinely abducted and abused by people traffickers in the Sinai Peninsular.

[size=200]Twenty-two year old Philemon Semere escaped from Eritrea to Ethiopia in 2010, where he sang in the church choir in Adi Harish Refugee Camp. Early in 2012, he travelled to Sudan and was attempting to reach Israel when he was abducted by Rashaida traffickers[/size] and taken to one of several torture and extortion facilities in the Sinai. He was beaten and abused regularly and at that time his captors asked him to source US$ 33,000 to ensure his release, or lose a kidney.

In October, Mr Semere was moved to another facility where he was subjected to electric shock torture, amongst other things. This morning his captors informed him he had five days to either produce US$ 25,000 or lose a kidney.

In a telephone conversation with CSW’s Special Ambassador, Rev Stuart Windsor, a clearly distraught Mr. Semere confirmed that “if they don’t get the money, they will kill me in five days”.

The abduction, torture and extortion of refugees in purpose-built facilities in the Sinai has been extensively documented since 2010. Hostages are generally bound for extended periods; deprived of adequate food; given salty water to drink, and tortured using extreme methods, including electric shocks and branding, while friends and relatives are obliged to listen via telephone to their screams and pleas for assistance. Women are particularly vulnerable to abuse, including gang-rape. Some hostages have been used as slave labour. Initially, demands for payment ranged between US$3000 and US$8000, but have increased enormously. When payments are not forthcoming, vital organs are illegally harvested in unhygienic conditions, generally resulting in the death of the person concerned.

CSW’s Special Ambassador Stuart Windsor said, “Our heartfelt prayers are with Philemon Semere as he faces this horrific ultimatum. The abduction and torture of human beings for profit and the illegal traffic in their organs is one of the most abhorrent forms of modern slavery and an appalling affront to human dignity. The continuation of this phenomenon is a terrible indictment of the failure of several signatories to international and regional refugee conventions to provide adequate protection for this vulnerable community. CSW urges the Egyptian authorities to act decisively to rescue Semere and others in his position, and to combat trafficking by ensuring perpetrators are brought to justice. However, we also recognise that trafficking is an international crime that spans national borders, and therefore call for concerted international action to bring this appalling phenomenon to an end.”
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if he was in an ethiopian refugee camp, why the hell did he go to sudan? how did he manage to go to sudan?

furthermore doesnt the ethiopian authories have complete control over their borders?

if your wise enough to read the facts about where these hostages have come from, then im sure your wise enough to know who is collaborating with these smugglers

the clue lies in the story inself, its not rocket science to work out who is behind this.

Tukus Duwlet for breakfast @Adulis Hotel, Eritrea Subuh Sega?????????

Tukus Duwlet for breakfast @Adulis Hotel, Eritrea Subuh Sega?????????

Kebt!

Almost all of the Eritrean victims of organ theft were abducted from the refugee camps in Tigray and taken to Sinai desert by TPLF human traffickers with evil intentions. The Ethiopian victims in Sinai were also kidnapped from their homes by the same TPLF human traffickers who later sold them to Bedouin gangs in Sinai for organ harvesting.

If Emperor Yohannes' cruelty is said to be the catalyst that took Tigray 100 years back to stone age, the genocidal woyanes are taking it a million years back with their unmatched cruelty that will linger in the minds of Ethiopians and Eritreans alike for generations to come.




Trafficking victims, some as young as 14, languish in Israeli jails

More than 20 Ethiopian women and girls, whom the state has officially recognized as victims of human trafficking, have spent the past 5 months incarcerated in Israeli prisons.

The entire group was kidnapped from Ethiopia and brought to Sinai, where they were held for ransom for three months while being repeatedly raped, beaten and starved. After the kidnappers had collected ransom from the women's families, they dumped them over the border, in Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/ne ... m-1.462528

Q: ባጠቃላይ ስንቴ ታሰርክ ስንቴ ተሸጥክ?
A: ሰባቱ ታስሬ አምስቴ ተሸጥኩ፣ በሀምሳ ሀምሳ ብር ማለት ነው።

It is sad to see Eritreans still being used and abused by Arabs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa2ZZLsyaew