“The prime minister’s statement is a joke given Malaysia’s atrocious record on human trafficking and the lack of political will to undertake meaningful steps in order to address these serious shortcomings,” Ong said in a statement here.
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Thai police crack down on Uzbek sex trafficking ring - Monsters and Critics
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Bangkok - Thai police cracked down on an international sex trafficking ring over the weekend, rescuing a dozen Uzbek women from forced prostitution in Bangkok, police said Monday.
Acting on a tip from the Freeland Foundation and United Nations, police on Sunday raided an apartment where they found 12 young women from Uzbekistan who had allegedly been lured into prostitution and robbery.
'Four of the women had no passports so we will send them back to Uzbekistan,' said Police Colonel Surachet Hakphan of Anti-Human Trafficking Division. 'The other eight are still under investigation to see if they are victims or procurers,' he said.
'Some of the ladies said they had been threatened with death or with attacks on their relatives in Uzbekistan if they didn't work for the gang,' Surachet said.
He said police had been investigating the case for three or four weeks after receiving information from Freeland and the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking that an international human-trafficking ring was operating in Bangkok.
Sources at Freeland, a rights group that combats both animal and human trafficking, claimed the ring was operated by Uzbek, Russian and Thai criminals.
'We still don't know if Thais are involved, but we understand that this ring is run by the Uzbek mafia,' Surachet said.
Freeland workers claimed that at least three Uzbek women had recently escaped from the trafficking ring in Bangkok, which forced them to work the streets around Nana Road, a red-light district that is popular among Western and Arab tourists.
They were reportedly forced to drug clients so the gang could rob them when they passed out.
'When recruited, the mainly rural-based Uzbek women reported they were told they would make significant sums of money in Thailand where they would be free to come and go,' said Freeland's Asia director Steven Galster.
'These women fear the mafia and police alike, so it is difficult to convince them to seek help from law enforcement,' he said.
Freeland appealed to Thai authorities to allow the victims to return home as soon as possible, rather than putting them in government shelters where they can be kept for over a year while awaiting court proceedings against their controllers.
Thai police crack down on Uzbek sex trafficking ring - Monsters and Critics
Monday, December 20, 2010
Thai police crack down on Uzbek sex trafficking ring - Monsters and Critics
Dec 20, 2010, 8:26 GMT
Bangkok - Thai police cracked down on an international sex trafficking ring over the weekend, rescuing a dozen Uzbek women from forced prostitution in Bangkok, police said Monday.
Acting on a tip from the Freeland Foundation and United Nations, police on Sunday raided an apartment where they found 12 young women from Uzbekistan who had allegedly been lured into prostitution and robbery.
'Four of the women had no passports so we will send them back to Uzbekistan,' said Police Colonel Surachet Hakphan of Anti-Human Trafficking Division. 'The other eight are still under investigation to see if they are victims or procurers,' he said.
'Some of the ladies said they had been threatened with death or with attacks on their relatives in Uzbekistan if they didn't work for the gang,' Surachet said.
He said police had been investigating the case for three or four weeks after receiving information from Freeland and the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking that an international human-trafficking ring was operating in Bangkok.
Sources at Freeland, a rights group that combats both animal and human trafficking, claimed the ring was operated by Uzbek, Russian and Thai criminals.
'We still don't know if Thais are involved, but we understand that this ring is run by the Uzbek mafia,' Surachet said.
Freeland workers claimed that at least three Uzbek women had recently escaped from the trafficking ring in Bangkok, which forced them to work the streets around Nana Road, a red-light district that is popular among Western and Arab tourists.
They were reportedly forced to drug clients so the gang could rob them when they passed out.
'When recruited, the mainly rural-based Uzbek women reported they were told they would make significant sums of money in Thailand where they would be free to come and go,' said Freeland's Asia director Steven Galster.
'These women fear the mafia and police alike, so it is difficult to convince them to seek help from law enforcement,' he said.
Freeland appealed to Thai authorities to allow the victims to return home as soon as possible, rather than putting them in government shelters where they can be kept for over a year while awaiting court proceedings against their controllers.
Source: monstersandcritics.com
Thai police crack down on Uzbek sex trafficking ring - Monsters and Critics
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Aust charity frees girls from Thai brothel
Image by FriskoDude via Flickr November 18, 2010
An Australian charity has helped rescue three underage girls from a Thai brothel catering to Western tourists.
Volunteers from The Grey Man, a Brisbane-based charity that rescues children from sexual exploitation and trafficking, saved the 15-year-olds from a bar/brothel in the town of Ban Chang, in southern Thailand, on Tuesday night.
It's the first primarily Western bar the charity has raided since its inception in 2004.
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The Grey Man's Thailand team leader, who needs to remain anonymous, said the rescue was launched after a long undercover operation.
The raid, on the Jigsaw Bar, was made in conjunction with Thai police's anti-human trafficking unit.
"The sting operation was conducted with no warning and was swift and effective," the team leader said.
"The manager of the Jigsaw Bar ... was arrested for providing the young girls for the purpose of sex."
The team leader said the bar was offering the girls for sex on the premises for $A35.
"The bar was located on a street with other bars notorious for providing similar services to Western men," he said.
"The Royal Thai Police anti human-trafficking unit is a dedicated and committed unit and their efforts and assistance are highly appreciated."
The Grey Man charity, mainly comprised of ex-soldiers and former police, has recently increased its operations in southeast Asia.
President John Curtis said the charity didn't usually target Western bars because they were only a small contributor to the problem.
"However we are putting the foreigners on notice that although we are not trying to stamp out prostitution we will intervene wherever we find underaged girls," Mr Curtis said.
The group said it now had larger teams of highly skilled volunteers and more sophisticated covert equipment available.
The Thailand team leader said this had brought the fight directly to the brothels, pimps and others engaged in the trafficking and exploitation of children.
"UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million women and children are victims of human trafficking each year," the team leader said.
"The Grey Man also runs programs aimed at the prevention of human trafficking by initiating and supporting key projects seeking to assist communities at risk and helping people avoid falling into the clutches of human traffickers in the first place."
He said that alongside its prevention and detection programs, The Grey Man organisation supported victims of the child sex trade by engaging with after-care providers and offering assistance to the victims.
Aust charity frees girls from Thai brothelSource: The AGE.com.au
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