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Sound of Torture Film - Eritrean-Swedish Journalist Exposes, Aids, Eritrean

Asylum Seekers Held Hostage, Tortured, Trafficked in Egypt's Sinai Desert

 

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This powerful film investigates the most underreported humanitarian crisis in the world according to the United Nations, and the one woman who is making it her mission to create change. SOUND OF TORTURE intimately follows Swedish-Eritrean journalist Meron Estefanos, who broadcasts a weekly online radio program on the situation of the Eritrean hostages held in Sinai torture camps and her efforts to aid victims and their families. 

 

Since 2006 when Europe closed its borders, human trafficking has burgeoned in Egypt's Sinai Desert, where Eritrean asylum seekers and refugees heading north to Israel are kidnapped, held hostage, and tortured by Bedouin smugglers demanding exorbitant ransoms for their freedom. SOUND OF TORTURE eloquently illuminates the harrowing situation of the Sinai torture camps, and highlights the brave work by activists on the ground to address this crisis.  

 

 

WMM is thrilled to announce SOUND OF TORTURE recently won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Israeli Oscars! Congratulations to director Keren Shayo and film subject Meron Estefanos on this incredible honor. 

 

 

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