Closed petition Stop Sinai Torture

Closed on 24 June 2014

This is an urgent appeal to the UK Government to put pressure on the United Nations to stop criminal gangs in Egypt’s Sinai Desert kidnapping, trafficking and brutally torturing refugees and asylum seekers, primarily from Eritrea and Sudan.

Amnesty International reported on 1st April, 2013: “many people held captive in Sinai have been subjected to extreme violence and brutality while waiting for ransoms to be paid by families. Including beatings with metal chains, sticks and whips; burning with cigarette butts or heated rubber and metal objects; suspension from the ceiling; pouring gasoline over the body and setting it on fire…being urinated on and having finger nails pulled out. Rape of men and women, and other forms of sexual violence have been frequently reported.”

Our petition is to ask for immediate action from the UK government to press the United Nations to identify and apprehend traffickers, and to assist and protect victims of trafficking.