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Obama’s Administration’s Fury Over Egypt Role In Human Trafficking
18 June 2009
The US State Department said in a report that Egypt has become an active factor in sex and human trafficking. The US State Department’s trafficking Person"s 2009 reported that Egypt was a source, transit and destination station for women and children exploited for the purposes of labor and sexual abuse. Social and moral violations were committed in the tourism season in Egypt where reports of wealthy men from the Gulf traveled to Egypt to purchase "temporary marriages" with Egyptian females including girls under the age of eighteen. These arrangements were often facilitated by the girls" parents and marriage brokers. The report added that child sex was increasingly reported in Cairo , Alexandria and Luxor . Furthermore young female Sudanese refugees including those under eighteen were coerced into prostitution in Cairo "s nightclubs by family or Sudanese gang members. The US State Department also included that " Egypt is a transit country for the trafficking of women from Uzebekistan , Moldova , Ukraine , Russia and other Eastern European countries to Israel for sexual exploitation. The report criticized the Egyptian Government"s lack of complying to even the lowest standards in the elimination of trafficking holding, it responsible for not applying the anti-human trafficking law throughout the past year. However, the report praised the Egyptian government"s enacting amendments to the Child Law prohibiting child trafficking and providing training for government officials on the use of these amendments. Prosecution also began of several alleged sex trafficking offenders. It advised Egyptian government to "Substantially increase law enforcement activity against trafficking, including the growing problems of the involuntary domestic servitude of children and child sex trafficking; to draft and enact legislation criminalizing all forms of human trafficking; to institute and apply a formal victim identification procedure to ensure that victims of this trafficking are not punished or otherwise treated as criminals for acts committed as a direct result of being trafficked The Ministry of Social Solidarity, said the report, continued to operate 19 drop-in centers for street children, women, and the disabled that may have provided care to trafficking victims in 2008; these centers, however, are only open during the day and do not provide comprehensive services for trafficking victims. The report also asked the Egyptian government to "provide in-kind or financial support to Non-Governmental Organizations providing protection services to victims; and to implement a comprehensive public information campaign to educate people about trafficking and its threats. Families of detainees demand immediate release of loved ones Meanwhile, the Misdemeanors Appeal Court of Damanhour rejected today the twenty-six detainees" latest appeal and upheld the prosecution request to remain in custody for a further fifteen days. Faris Barakat a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was thrown from the fourth floor by State Security officer Naji Al-Gamal during the raids on the houses of members of the brotherhood was among those detained. The detainees are: Osama Suleiman, Ashraf Al-Katib, Mohammad Aldahbi, and Ahmed Eid, Sayed Al-Bakatoshi, Ali Al-Sheikh, Ahmed Wahba, and Ahmed Hassanein, Hani Bakatoshi, and Majdi Oweda, Mohamed al-Erian, and Emad Abdel-Hafez, Abdel-Hakim Abdel Raouf, Ahmed Al-smad, Saeed Mabrouk, and Mahmoud Abdul Nazeer, Ahmed Abdel-Mawgoud, and Abu Al-Fotouh Abu al-Yazid, Mohamed Abdul Rashid, Muhammad Salman, and Muhammad Zeidan, Khalid Al-Melegy, Mohammad Hassan Abu al-Hassan, Mohamed Al Sakhawi, and Ali Nasr. The Security Services were infuriated while prisoners were being transferred in deportation vehicles yesterday. Families of prisoners were bewildered and stunned as they witnessed their loved ones being beaten and feelings of hurt and anger were provoked as they watched helplessly the food and belongings of the detainees thrown onto the ground. The detainees were also denied food and water during interrogation. Forces completely surrounded Damanhur Prison where slogans such as "Tyrannous ruler, O Allah will retaliate against you" and "O State Security O State Security no State no security" "Allah is sufficient for us, most Excelled is He".
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