Egypt Detains 75 people in Human Trafficking Probe (pizzagate)

submitted ago by HugoWeaving

The more dominoes that fall, the faster we get to knocking down the last of them.

A 14-month investigation by the Administrative Control Authority, the country’s (Egypt's) anti-corruption body, found that the group was made of government officials, Egyptian citizens, and foreigners, state news agency MENA said. Read full story here.

...I get it, this is small potatos to most of you, but likely this is just one small tentacle of the much-larger beast...And sometimes it's the loosest of ends that can hang the worst of them. They're the ones who have the most to loose and can't afford not making a deal.

So loose lips...let's sink some ships!

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think- ago

Interesting background article, Wikipedia:

Egypt is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children who are subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution.

Some of Egypt's estimated two hundred thousand to one million street children – both boys and girls – are exploited in prostitution and forced begging.

Local gangs are, at times, involved in this exploitation. Egyptian children are recruited for domestic and agricultural labor; some of these children face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude, such as restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or sexual abuse.

In addition, wealthy men from the Gulf reportedly travel to Egypt to purchase "temporary" or "summer marriages" with Egyptian females, including girls who are under the age of 18; these arrangements are often facilitated by the females' parents and marriage brokers and are a form of commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Child sex tourism occurs in Cairo, Alexandria, and Luxor. Egypt is a transit country for women trafficked from Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and other Eastern European countries to Israel for commercial sexual exploitation; organized crime groups are involved in these movements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Egypt