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Islamic State harvesting human organs for revenue?

February 18, 2015

Iraq's ambassador to the UN has charged that leaders of the Islamic State (ISIS) are harvesting human organs as a source of revenue.

Mohamed Alhakim told the Security Council that in mass graves of ISIS victims, corpses have been found with surgical incisions and missing vital organs. He reported that doctors have been executed by ISIS for refusing to remove human organs.

 


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