Khaberni - The Amman Criminal Court has sentenced a sixty-year-old man to seven years of temporary hard labor after convicting him of human trafficking, following the death of a young Jordanian suffering from kidney failure on a surgery table inside an abandoned apartment in Pakistan.
In detail, the deceased young man suffered from severe kidney failure and underwent dialysis three times a week.
The young man's father met the accused, who was residing in Pakistan, on social media platforms where the latter claimed to be a doctor capable of securing donors and performing kidney transplant operations. They agreed that the fee for the donor and the operation would be 35,000 US dollars.
The father and son traveled to Pakistan and met with the accused, handing over the amount, only for the father to later discover that the accused was not a doctor but an engineer.
On the day of the operation, the son was taken to an unprepared medical facility, an abandoned apartment, where several people presented themselves as doctors and nurses were present.
During the operation, the young man suffered severe bleeding and subsequently died.
Unaware of what had happened, the father was transferred to a nearby hospital where he found his son lifeless on a bed in the emergency department.
After returning to Jordan, he filed an official complaint, and the Jordanian authorities were able to lure the accused and arrest him.
The court convicted the accused of human trafficking through organ harvesting exploitation and sentenced him to seven years of temporary hard labor and fined him five thousand dinars.
