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Eritrean refugees being tortured in the Sudan and Egypt
by Joseph Earnest February 11, 2014
Newscast
Media BERLIN—Traffickers have kidnapped, tortured, and killed refugees, most from Eritrea, in eastern Sudan and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, according to dozens of interviewees said Human Rights Watch. Egypt and Sudan
have failed to adequately identify and prosecute the traffickers and
any security officials who may have colluded with them, breaching both
countries’ obligation to prevent torture.
The 79-page report, "'I Wanted to Lie Down and Die:' Trafficking and Torture of Eritreans in Sudan and Egypt,"
documents how, since 2010, Egyptian traffickers have tortured Eritreans
for ransom in the Sinai Peninsula, including through rape, burning, and
mutilation. It also documents torture by traffickers in eastern Sudan
and 29 incidents in which victims told Human Rights Watch that Sudanese
and Egyptian security officers facilitated trafficker abuses rather than
arresting them and rescuing their victims. Egyptian officials deny
there are trafficker abuses in Sinai, allowing it to become a safe haven
for traffickers.
"Egyptian officials have for years denied the horrific abuse of refugees going on under their noses in Sinai," said Gerry Simpson,
senior refugee researcher for Human Rights Watch and author of the
report. "Both Egypt and Sudan need to put an end to torture and
extortion of Eritreans on their territory, and to prosecute traffickers
and any security officials colluding with them," he
added.
*Click here to read or download entire human abuse report. (pop-up)
The report draws on 37 interviews with Eritreans by Human Rights Watch and 22 by a nongovernmental organization in Egypt. The people interviewed said they had been abused for weeks or even months, either near the town of Kassala in eastern Sudan or near the town of Arish in northeastern Sinai, near Egypt’s border with Israel.
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