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BEIJING, Sep 19, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese police freed 10,621 women and 5,896 children who had been abducted for human trafficking as of September 6,since the Ministry of Public Security launched a crackdown on trafficking the crime in April last year.
In the campaign, police nationwide apprehended 2,398 human trafficking gangs and handled 13,500 such cases, said the ministry in a statement on Sunday.
Further, the police put 15,673 suspects under criminal detention and handed out administrative penalties on 1,518 people, it said.
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The database had helped 813 children to find their biological parents through DNA matching.
China's crackdown on human trafficking frees 16,517 abducted women, children
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