Mother sells her daughter's kidney for $7,000 in Iraq

Gulf Today Report

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior arrested a woman who sold her daughter's kidney for 10 million Iraqi dinars in the capital Baghdad.

The ministry stated that, “A force from the Directorate of Combating Crime in Baghdad, the Office of Combating Crime in Mahmudiyah, executed an arrest warrant against a woman on charges of trafficking in human organs,” stressing that she “made an agreement and sold her daughter’s kidney to an unknown person in one of the northern governorates for 10 million Iraqi dinars ( $7,000).

He added that "the operation was carried out after the availability of information from confidential sources about the case, checking the information, taking fundamental approvals, and tracking down the accused until her arrest," noting that "the defendant's statements were written down and judicially ratified by her confession in accordance with the provisions of Article 17 of the Human Organ Trade Law."

It is noteworthy that the Iraqi Council of Representatives approved the Anti-Human Trafficking Law No. 28 in 2012, to control such criminal operations.