{"id":326440,"date":"2025-02-16T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326440"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:26:09","slug":"women-trafficked-human-egg-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-trafficked-human-egg-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: ‘Chinese gangsters’ trafficked women to human ‘egg farm’ in republic of Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A shocking report claims women have been trafficked from Thailand to a human egg farm<\/a> in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to forcibly harvest their eggs. Some of the Thai women who were able to escape are now telling their stories.<\/p>\n

According to the Bangkok Post<\/a>, Pavena Hongsakula, founder of the Pavena Foundation for Children and Women, led the efforts to rescue the women after one of them was able to escape. That woman said she paid the Chinese gang of captors 70,000 baht (just over $2,000 USD) for her freedom.<\/p>\n

The woman also told Pavena that there were still more Thai women enslaved there, and Pavena worked with Foreign Affairs police and Interpol to rescue three more women.<\/p>\n

Georgia’s interior ministry claimed that the women at the egg farm were there of their own free will. In a statement<\/a>, it said, “Up to 70 foreign citizens were interviewed, however none of them, except for 3 Thai women, had any complaints … the 3 Thai women explained that they no longer wanted to be surrogate mothers and stay at their residential address.”<\/p>\n

The survivors, however, have denied that they were participating willingly and said that they had been trafficked. They claim they were lured to Georgia with promises of 400,000 to 600,000 baht (around $12,000 – 18,000 USD) to be surrogates for childless couples. When they arrived, however, they were imprisoned, alongside over 100 women. They say they were given no payment whatsoever. Instead, they were forced to have their eggs harvested each month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey took us to a house where there were 60 to 70 Thai women,” one woman said. “There were no surrogacy contracts or parents. Women were injected with hormones, anesthetized, and their eggs extracted by machine every month.\u201d<\/p>\n

The women alleged that if they were caught trying to escape, they had to pay a ransom, and said the gang took their passports away from them as well, making it impossible for them to return to Thailand.<\/p>\n