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ICERAS focuses on facilitating asylum seekers and refugees internationally
January, 2014
Horror stories of human trafficking, torture, and slavery of Africans by Muslims in Sinai
Horror stories of human trafficking, torture, and slavery of Africans by Muslims in Sinai “By that time I had lost sensation in both my hands,” an Eritrean torture victim told CBN News. “It was a result of the accumulated torture but mainly because (both) of my wrists were tied up so tightly, (and I was) […]
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Women raped by Sinai traffickers find help
Women raped by Sinai traffickers find help By Frederik Pleitgen and Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, CNN The Sinai desert is a hub for people trafficking. Many of the refugees from sub-Saharan Africa who get smuggled through here get tortured and blackmailed in the process. Bedouin gangs – instead of trafficking the refugees straight into […]
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Torture Camps of Sinai
Helping African victims of human trafficking in Israel In recent years, some 50,000 Africans have crossed into Israel from Sinai, creating a refugee problem that Israeli authorities have struggled to solve. Most are from war-torn Eritrea. Many Israelis consider them “infiltrators” just looking for jobs and want them deported. But to hear the tragic […]
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Migrant boat sinks off Sicily, at least 319 people drowned
Migrant boat sinks off Sicily, at least 319 people drowned Siculiana : Italy | Oct 12, 2013 at 1:26 PM PDT By SRHS143 4 0 Views: 426 1 of 22 An African migrant and her son watch a memorial service for the deaths of hundreds of migrants in last week’s Lampedusa boat disaster, in Tel […]
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Lampedusa migrant boat disaster:
Lampedusa migrant boat disaster: 35-year-old Tunisian who was the captain and suspected of starting the fatal fire on vessel that caused shipwreck is arrested by Italian Police. Media source: Migrant Boat caught fire near the Italian Island of Lampedusa Italian police have arrested a Tunisian man they believe is responsible for last week’s migrant disaster […]
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