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Unknown Eritrean Refugees Corpses in Egyptian Hospitals
Department of Information and Culture
Eritrean People’s Party
October 13, 2009
Radio Voice of Eritrea, a news agency based in Au stralia, reported that Egypti an hospitals are keeping
eight unknown Eritrean refugees corp ses in their mortuary. The corpse s have been kept in different
hospitals for over a month now of which 2 were recently released and flown to Eritrea at the cost of
$2,600 US dollars for each, added Radio Voice of Eritrea. The remaining 6 corpses won’t be released as the
cost of transportation and airfare expenses to Eritrea cannot be made available.
In related news, Egyptian authorities are still keeping a large number of Eritrean refugees in various
detention facilities in which some of the refugees ha ve already stayed over a year in those detention
centers. According to Radio Voice of Eritrea, Egyp tian authorities have made a decision to keep the
refugees imprisoned until the refugees pay their own travel expenses back to Eritrea.