US EditionEritrean Man Accused of People-Smuggling Is Extradited to the Netherlands
Kidane Habtemariam faces charges including migrant-smuggling and extortion with prosecutors seeking a 20-year sentence in one of the Netherlands' largest human-smuggling cases.
- On Wednesday, Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam was extradited to the Netherlands by the United Arab Emirates and flown to Amsterdam with Dutch military police.
- After fleeing Ethiopia while on trial, Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam was convicted in absentia and sentenced to life after escaping custody, prompting his addition to an international wanted list.
- The Dutch prosecution alleges the network earned large sums by assaulting and extorting primarily Eritrean migrants, with assaults in Libya and extortion of family members in the Netherlands.
- He is due in court on Saturday in one of the largest human-smuggling cases, while Tewelde Goitom's lawyers seek to call Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam as a witness after Goitom's trial opened last month.
- In recent years, Libya has become the dominant transit point as post-2011 chaos enabled human traffickers to smuggle migrants across land borders with six nations.
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Eritrean human smuggler extradited to Netherlands, faces charges of torture, extortion
Kidane H., a 41-year-old Eritrean accused of leading a notorious human smuggling network, was extradited from the United Arab Emirates to the Netherlands on Wednesday.Dutch authorities say H. and his organization imprisoned and abused Eritrean migrants traveling to Europe and extorted their families, many of whom live in the Netherlands.
Kidane H., a 41-year-old Eritrean man, whom the Public Prosecution Service (OM) intends to prosecute for human trafficking, among other charges, has been extradited from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Netherlands. The man landed at Schiphol Airport on Wednesday evening and was escorted by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, the OM reports.
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