CAIRO: Several African human rights organizations, using the recent Youm7 investigative report, today considered lawsuits against those responsible for the organ-trafficking scandal in North Sinai. International online news agencies, particularly those where the issue of African migrants is critical, republished the Youm7 investigative report. Eritrean magazine El Nahda published the report under the title “First exploratory investigation including details about organ trafficking of African migrants,” and Sudanese website Farajat.net published the report under the headline “Bedouin gangs detain African migrants in Sinai caverns and steal their organs.” The two news sources pointed to the influence of the Egyptian media coverage of the crisis, including the efforts of related human rights institutes in Egypt and Sudan. The news sources also mentioned statements made by both the Egyptian Health Ministry and the International Commission for Refugees, both of whom condemned the crime that was covered in grim detail in the Youm7 report. Human rights organizations in Eritrea and Sudan called for an investigation into the incident based on the Youm7 investigative report. All information mentioned in the investigation is 100 percent true, Adam El Haj Moussa, political activist and the head of the Eritrean National Front for Change, told Youm7. The authoritarian regime in Eritrea forces thousands of Eritrean youth to make the dangerous journey to Israel, Moussa said.
