The Global Center on Human Trafficking
ASHA – SUDAN/EGYPT
Asha, from Sudan, explains how she was recruited in Khartoum and taken to Cairo. They said they would find me work and then they would take me to Italy. When she arrived in Cairo, Asha was told that she would not be going to Europe. Instead she would be “donating” her kidney. She was promised $2,000 if she complied. If not, the men said, they would take her kidney by force. Asha was taken by taxi to a nondescript apartment in Alexandria. After surgery, Asha reported one of the brokers to the police. Asha lives in fear for her life, subjected to threats and intimidation by the broker and his associates. She says she was told that if she did not withdraw her statement, her children would bear the consequences. (Source)