Human trafficking
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A 64-year-old woman was charged on Thursday (Jul 4) with 33 counts of employing foreigners without valid work passes. From 2018 to 2021, Singaporean Ang Peck Leang allegedly employed 33 foreigners to be part-time cleaners via a chat group on Viber, a mobile app. Of the 33 foreigners, 27 were maids, five were on work…
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A plane carrying 300 Indian citizens grounded in France over human trafficking allegations is free to take off again. Those on board the charter flight run by Romanian company Legend Airlines were travelling from Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates to Managua, Nicaragua. But the A340 plane was grounded at Vatry Airport, a small hub…
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Ahead of the sentencing of former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu on May 5, the House of Representatives has appealed to the Central Criminal Court, United Kingdom, to temper justice with mercy. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance raised by the deputy minority leader of the House,…
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Dame Ann Gloag, co-founder of Stagecoach Group, has been charged in connection with a human trafficking investigation. A Police Scotland spokesman said: “On 19 January 2023, four individuals were charged in connection with an investigation into alleged human trafficking and immigration offences. A report will be sent to the prosecutor fiscal.” A spokeswoman for the 80-year-old businesswoman strongly…
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Spain’s government presented a new bill Tuesday with the goal of providing better protection for economically vulnerable migrants who are in the clutches of international human trafficking rings. The proposed legislation was designed to help victims of different types of trafficking, from sexual exploitation and forced labor to the illegal sale of human organs, involuntary…
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An Albanian people-smuggling gang that transported migrants to Britain via Spain has been “dismantled” after a series of arrests, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Saturday. Seven suspects were arrested, including two group leaders on Monday who were about to fly out of Madrid Airport to Albania, for keeping people in dangerous conditions as they were transferred in…
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Seven African migrants died Monday and 70 other people were rescued when their boat sank while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco to Spain, according to a military official. The rescued migrants, including 10 women and a baby, were brought back to the Moroccan coastal city of Nador and taken to Morocco’s coast…
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Police investigators in the United Kingdom has said that 10 teenagers were among the 39 people found dead in an abandoned truck container. UK police also confirmed that all 39 victims in the truck were Vietnamese. Their bodies were discovered in Grays, a small town in southeast England. Details of the failed human trafficking…
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A truck driver has been arrested after 39 people died in his lorry’s refrigerated compartment. The alleged human trafficker is a Northern Irishman who calls the vehicle he drives ‘The Polar Express’. Mo Robinson, 25, is at the center of one of Britain’s biggest ever murder investigations after an ambulance crew discovered the bodies in…
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The Latest on the death of 39 people in a truck container in southeastern England. As at 4:25pm Wednesday, U.K. police revised their theories about a truck found in southeast England with 39 bodies inside, saying it traveled from Belgium to England, not from Ireland as they thought earlier. Essex police said Wednesday that their…
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The New York Medical Examiner’s Office released the official autopsy report on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on 16 August, finding he died from suicide by hanging. His death earlier sparked conspiracy theories of the financier having been the target of a hit by powerful friends afraid of being exposed in Epstein’s upcoming trial. According…
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Corrections officers should have been checking on Jeffrey Epstein every half-hour. Instead, he hadn’t been checked on in “several” hours when he was found hanged in his cell Saturday, a source tells the Washington Post. That’s just one of multiple mistakes that have come to light in the wake of Epstein’s death. According to a source from the Post source,…
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Indian activists believe the country’s anti-trafficking laws have faced lax implementation even as government holds series of meetings with NGOs on bills aimed at addressing various aspects of human trafficking. However, a high school teacher named Rajkumar Kotal says he ran out of ideas and had to take actions. According to a report from Reuters,…
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Horrific sights of photos and videos of African migrants being sold off like objects in Libya’s modern day slave markets would churn your stomach and stir your inquisitive mind on what efforts the African Union has made to close down these inhumane “auction” sites. Slavery is evil; it’s a cancer which must be dissected from…
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