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Police in Pakistan said Friday they busted an organ trafficking ring when a missing 14-year-old boy was found in an underground lab after having his kidney removed. The ring was responsible for luring young, vulnerable victims with promises of lucrative jobs and large payouts before removing their organs — mainly kidneys — to sell for…
Indonesian police said the suspects – aged 14 and 17 – attempted to sell the 10-year-old victim’s organs on an online marketplace The teens were allegedly lured into the crime by a foreign-based website that promised hefty amounts for peddlers selling human organs on its platform Indonesian police have arrested two teenagers for allegedly kidnapping…
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched a new toolkit on how to effectively investigate and prosecute the trafficking of people for the purpose of organ removal – a form of trafficking that has been persistently left in the dark, yet is detected in many countries around the world. Driven largely…
This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. By Paul McAnulty, UK & Europe Programme Director at Hope for Justice Poverty is one of the major drivers that underpins exploitation, and…
Abstract Armed conflicts leave populations vulnerable to organ trafficking, a criminal enterprise with little international regulation when viewed separately from human trafficking. The Council of Europe’s Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs is the only instrument to contemplate the responsibility of actors involved in organ trafficking, but traffickers may go unpunished due to its limited…
According to rights activists and media reports Iran’s high-ranking officials – among whom, IRGC Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour, and President of the Supreme Disciplinary Court for Judges, Hossein-Ali Nayeri, architected a tentacular organ harvesting and trafficking network, which, it has been alleged, has bullied young mothers to abandon their newborns, for a…
Recently, there have been uproars on and off social media about Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president and his wife, Beatrice, who were arrested by the United Kingdom Police over alleged child trafficking and conspiracy to harvest an organ of a child. Organ trafficking sometimes known as transplant tourism describes the commercialism that drives the…
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