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Dutch put Eritrean trafficker on most wanted list

Dutch put Eritrean trafficker on most wanted list

DUTCH prosecutors have put Eritrean trafficker Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam on their most wanted list and want to try him for crimes related to his alleged people-smuggling ring. Kidane was sentenced to life in prison by a court in Ethiopia in absentia in June for starving and torturing African refugees and migrants headed for Europe in warehouses in Libya. The Dutch public prosecutor's office said an investigation revealed that Kidane's organisation "abuses, extorts, kidnaps and rapes Eritreans" who want to reach the Netherlands. The refugees and migrants are mistreated in camps in Libya while relatives living in the Netherlands are blackmailed,…
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