Mission & Justice

Nilofar Suhrawardy; 30/1/08

The government plans to change the National Organ Transplant Act to punish organ thieves in the wake of a kidney scam unearthed last week on the outskirts of the national capital. An inquiry by the federal Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will also look into the illegal kidney transplant racket.“Since it (the racket) may involve several states and cities like Mumbai, Noida and Gurgaon, we will soon be requesting the CBI to undertake a detailed investigation and give a comprehensive report on how widespread the problem is,” Health Minister Anbumani Ramdoss said yesterday at a news conference.

See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=106245&d=30&m=1&y=2008

A 15-year-old Christian boy is abducted and killed, possibly by organ traffickers
30/1/08
Trafficking in human organs might be behind the recent spate of disappearances reported in and around Sangla Hill, a village in Punjab’s Nankanna district. The most sensational case is that of Francis Nadeem, a 15-year-old Christian who was abducted and killed according to his self-confessed captors. But so far his body has not been found and the police seem more interested in protecting the two culprits who are from influential local families. The story is reported in Pakistan Christian Post, a local Protestant paper that gathered the elements of the story from the family of the missing boy and from ROD (Rays of Development), an NGO that sent a fact finding team to the area. Sadeeq Masih, Francis Nadeem’s father, said that in the evening of “20 December, Muhammad Imran and Muhammad Zaman, two rich and powerful Muslims from a neighbouring village came to our house and took away Francis by force. They left on a motorbike and never came back. As soon as we could, we started looking for him everywhere, but without results.”
See: http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11394&size=A

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