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Fight against human trafficking stepped up

Dubai is seeking a society free of human trafficking crimes, said the emirate's Attorney-General.

  • By Bassam Za'za', Staff Reporter
  • Published: 22:57 October 23, 2007
  • Gulf News

Dubai: Dubai is seeking a society free of human trafficking crimes, said the emirate's Attorney-General.

Essam Eisa Al Humaidan announced this after referring the third human trafficking case, involving two suspects who tried to sell two women for Dh10,000 and exploited them sexually, to the Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday.

The Public Prosecution charged the Asian suspects, identified as S.F. and F.N., with confining the Asian women in a flat, beating and forcing them to have sex with customers for money which they kept for themselves.

Al Humaidan stressed that the Public Prosecution is keen to combat human trafficking crimes by applying the most stringent punishment against human traffickers in line with the leadership's wise policy and efforts to protect human rights.

Preventive measures

"We seek to adopt a set of preventive measures to curb and uproot this crime," Al Humaidan added.

The chief public prosecutor Mansour Abdullah who questioned the suspects said: "The victims worked as housemaids before they abandoned their sponsor.

"They met S.F. who promised to hire them and kept them in a flat. An unidentified suspect [who is still at large] aided S.F. to confine the girls in the flat and forced them to have sex with customers."

Abdullah said they beat and tortured the girls every time they refused to have sex with customers.

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