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‘After being freed by traffickers, 611 Eritrean refugees reached the state of Israel’ says Human rights activist

Prisoners in the Sinai: Human Rights Defenders take on the Traffickers Rome /Arish, November 13, 2011. What use are the actions undertaken by human rights defenders? What use are the campaigns, reports and complaints, contacts with

Prisoners in the Sinai: Human Rights Defenders take on the Traffickers

Rome /Arish, November 13, 2011. What use are the actions undertaken by human rights defenders? What use are the campaigns, reports and complaints, contacts with the institutions and the media during these operations?

Unfortunately, they are sometimes insufficient to prevent humanitarian tragedies taking place, or to save lives. This is not the case, however, for the long campaign that EveryOne Group and other NGOs involved in defending the rights of refugees has carried out to protect sub-Saharan migrants in Northern Sinai.

Thanks to an enormous amount of evidence, reports, photographs and videos, human rights defenders have helped to save hundreds of human lives in the North Sinai Governorate. Thanks to the continuous presence of the media and several actions by the United Nations and European Union; thanks to the courageous work of organizations such as New Generation Foundation for Human Rights, ICER, Agenzia Habeshia, the NGO Gandhi, and other small and large organizations, many human beings have now been saved who were once destined for the human organs black market, brutal treatment in the traffickers’ hideouts, inhuman conditions in Egyptian prisons and deportation. This result does not lessen the pain for the many victims in the past, or the suffering of many other young refugees. However, we believe that every life saved is a miracle, an important step towards a human society without violence, discrimination and injustice.

On Wednesday, November 9th, 2011, even if there was no mention of it in the media, another miracle took place. After the story of the prisoners in the Sinai was broadcast by the CNN in a documentary made in collaboration with EveryOne Group and the New Generation Foundation for Human Rights; after the news of the trafficking in human beings and organs was reported in the world’s most important newspapers, along with the killings, the episodes of rape, and the crimes committed by Egyptian border guards, it finally appeared in the Egyptian media (from the Daily News Egypt to the state TV). So much attention was then focused on the North Sinai Governorate that it has made it very difficult for the traffickers to carry out their dirty work.

The world’s media are all there, at Arish, Gorah and Rafah. They investigate, ask questions, patrol the city in search of the underground containers and groups of sub-Saharan refugees in the hands of the smugglers. The criminals’ names are on a thousand lips: Abu Kahled, Abu Ahmed, Abu Abdellah, the Sawarka family. In the meantime, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, the EU Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee against Torture and dozens of MPs and MEPs, NGOs and intellectuals have sent letters of protest and reported the crimes to the Egyptian and international authorities. In this climate, many chief-traffickers were afraid of being pursued by the authorities and on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 decided to release most of the groups of refugees they were holding prisoner.

They were released on the border with Israel. They came from Arish, Gorah, Rafah and other cities of the Sinai, a total of over 600 people according to numbers released by the UNHCR, and reported in the Italian newspaper L’Avvenire.

Hamdy Al-Azazy, the human rights activist, told Everyone Group that after being freed by the traffickers, 611 Eritrean refugees reached the state of Israel. Hundreds of human beings destined for a terrible future, often death, are now free thanks to humanitarian activism and the human rights activists who never gave up, not even in the face of silence and indifference that lasted far too long.

EveryOne Group has now asked the High Commissioner for Refugees to ensure that the refugees are protected and resettled in the EU, without the threat of deportation. There will be no security for them while the possibility of deportation still exists. Although we must not lower our guard, we can be satisfied with the results this new form of activism (which uses the Internet, but also exposes itself on the frontline, running serious risks to save human lives) can achieve in today’s troubled world, a world that is still far from the ideal of peace and social justice.

Source: Every One

 Assenna is trying hard to contact Eritrean victims for confirmation

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29 COMMENTS
  • guest November 14, 2011

    Great news amid of frustration,hopelessness and death. Thanks for all who accomplished this great job but i am really shocked by silence of the Eritrean government about the plight of its victims. It is also good development to protect citizen in Egypt from being deported.

    • Rimabi2 November 14, 2011

      Thanks God and for those who involved in this successful mission, who working hard in order for saving their life. You did great job, The are innocent young Eritrean Those who victimized by the modern slavery which run by the current shifta (HGDEF) and they did not have a future in their country, most of them did serve for the leaders of the Eritrean Regime (HGDEF) for more than 10 years and they did manage to escape from this slavery and again then been victimized by ransom collector of Egyptian and Eritrean Rashida who motivated by HGDEF in order to terrorized the youngsters dozen of those people were killed and lost their organs in order to collect money, but at the last you did well. Thanks for all of you who contributed on this event.

      Also the job done HGDEFAWIAN you were deaf when all those happens, but History told us you cross borders of other countries in order to support terrorist such as Somalia and Sudan but you did not take any action in order to save the life your Innocent youth this is what kind of criminal and killer you looks like and there are reamers many Colonels from this regime involved on this trafficking. End off the day you will justified by what you did.

    • ahmed Saleh November 14, 2011

      Thank you, thank you, million times. That is the best news to hear. All participants on this
      campaign who work hard for their safety, job well done, THANKS again ,GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

      • ahmed Saleh November 14, 2011

        Next step is to go after those who are involved in this grisly crime, start to investigate
        from Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt. It is not fair to let them get away with blood in their hand
        without facing justice. These evil deeds should be illiminated from society. Meanwhile,
        it bothers me to think and find an answer, why the hell HGDFwian shut their mouth when
        we are in pain? Where is your self-pity against the grief of others? It is strange, isn’t it?

  • WediMereb November 14, 2011

    Yes great news!

    Mr Hamdy Al-Azazy told me (per Tel.) the problem is solved; also the rest of the victims under the human traffickers will be freed soon. He said “I want to save the face of my land”. He means Egypt, a country that mainly depends on tourism. The impact of these (traffickers) Arab-Mafia activities could be a poison to the Egyptian touristic economy.

  • Fetawihaki November 14, 2011

    thanks to God, thanks to all who helped to free our eritrean bros and sis!!!
    shame to the dictatorial eritrean gov.!!!!

  • Haben November 14, 2011

    Congratulations Meron! DR Yeabio, Fr Mussie, Assenna, Elsa and others who has been working hard tirelessly to save many beloved lives! keep it up!

  • Haile November 14, 2011

    I think this is a good news. But how do we know how many more are still under the hands of the criminals?
    We should also find out how many died. You should not rest till the criminal elements are either brought to court or liquidated.

    I think we should advertised against tourism in egypt. The land of Human traffikers.

  • light in darkness November 14, 2011

    Thanks GOD
    The best news so far.
    thanks assenna and all eritrean and international human rights activites.

  • Haile November 14, 2011

    Nel deserto il business milionario dei sequestri si sarebbe così saldato con quello altrettanto florido degli organi umani a spese degli africani. Il rischio è infatti pari a zero, le ambasciate dei Paesi di appartenenza non reclamano per la sparizione di disperati privi di documenti, e la polizia egiziana non interviene. I predoni, dal canto loro, si sono ben guardati dal rapire occidentali

  • Haile November 14, 2011

    The paragraph above is from the italian news paper L’Avvenire.

  • Kemal November 14, 2011

    Congratulations!!! for those of you who work tirelessly to make this happen. I wish i am one of you. You should be proud of your self for fighting the peaceful war against all the odds. There is nothing holy than standing for others who help them selves.
    God/Allah bless our nation and people !!

  • truly, Truly i say to you November 14, 2011

    Lord is king for ever; he has set up his throne for judgment.
    (Psalm: 9; 7)
    SING PRAISE TO THE LORD, WHO RULES IN ZION! TELL EVERY NATION WHAT HE HAS DONE!
    (Psalm: 9; 11)
    God remembers those who suffer; he does not forget their cry,and he punishes who those who wrong them.
    (Psalm 9; 12)
    The needy will not always be neglected; the hope of the poor will not be crushed forever.
    (Psalm: 9;18) Say everybody praise the Lord! Amen! Hallelujah! praise the Lord!
    Thanks to Meron Estifanos, Elsa Churum, Amanuel Iyasu and to others Eritrean activists and foreign human right organisations, specially to Israeli Government.

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