Dubai: Five men were jailed for five years for human trafficking after they left a critically injured woman at a hospital entrance and absconded.
The 30-year-old Bangladeshi woman fell and fractured her back and legs while she was escaping from a third-floor flat, where she said that the five Bangladeshi men confined and forced her into prostitution.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the five men of sexually exploiting the 30-year-old woman, abusing her neediness and forcing her into the sex industry.
Human trafficking
“The defendants will be deported following the completion of their imprisonments,” said presiding judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi.
According to the judgment, a 29-year-old defendant, A.A., and a 24-year-old, S.M., were accused of sexually exploiting the woman and coercing her into the sex industry with beatings and threats. The court also convicted 26-year-old N.H., a 32-year-old S.A. and a 28-year-old A.H. with aiding and abetting A.A. and S.M. to commit a human trafficking crime.
A.A. and S.M. locked the woman in a flat in Naif where she was forced to have sex with strangers. The suspects were also accused of running a brothel. The defendants pleaded not guilty. The 30-year-old woman said she came to work as a housemaid for an Emirati family in Fujairah after she was hired through a manpower supply company in 2011.
“I worked for my sponsor for nearly 17 months and when their treatment worsened I absconded. My Ethiopian coworker provided me with A.A.’s contact details. He picked me up from Fujairah and promised to help me find a job in Dubai.
“He kept me in a studio in Naif. When he told me that I would work in prostitution, I refused. … I was beaten and coerced to have sex with up to ten men per day.”
