Refugee kidnappings in Sinai
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Refugee kidnappings in Sinai
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Large numbers of refugee kidnappings in Sinai occurred between 2009 and 2014. Refugees from Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea were transported to Sinai and held hostage by members of Bedouin tribes. Typically, the hostages were forced to give up phone numbers of relatives and were tortured with the relatives on the phone, in order to obtain ransoms in the range of $20,000–$40,000. If the families could not pay, the hostages were killed. The Egypt–Israel barrier, designed to keep out African migrants,
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Kidnapping of African refugees by Bedouins in Sinai, Egypt (2009–2014)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_kidnappings_in_Sinai
date created:
2013-09-06T00:07:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T18:16:45Z
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