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Thursday, August 08, 2013

[Egypt/Sinai]: CBN News - Tortured in the Sinai: 'I Was Hanged for Days'

This story begins in Eritrea, where many like Philip fled from its brutal dictatorship. He traveled to a United Nations refugee camp in Sudan. There he was kidnapped by a Bedouin tribe.

They transferred him -- along with many others -- through Sudan, Egypt, and all the way to the Sinai desert and their torture camps.

"There are around 7,000 that went through these torture camps and 4,000 that died.  Those are huge numbers and I don't think that the world needs to keep quiet about that," Shoham said.

The location of these torture camps is no secret.

"Their location and whereabouts is known already by many high officials," human rights activist Majed El Shafie  told CBN News.