Saturday, July 30, 2011

71 Victims of Human Trafficking Released

BANGKOK - Thailand's government on Saturday (30/07/2011), freed 71 women and teenage girls who get caught up in the business of sexual services in massage parlors, bars, and karaoke, police said, after making pengerebekan at the site of human trafficking (human trafficking) in Malaysia border.

Thirteen of them were found still teenagers, women aged less than 18 years, said Lt. Col. Noppadon Petsut, deputy commander of police in Sadao district of Songkhla province, where the surgery was performed Friday. "The operation followed complaints Laos Embassy in Bangkok," he said. He added that 70 young women came from Laos and one from Myanmar.

Noppadon said, a man in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and a woman were charged with human trafficking and the provision of sexual services illegal. "Allegations of human trafficking very seriously and have a maximum penalty of capital punishment," he said.

Police freed 59 women from a karaoke place and 12 others from the spa at a checkpoint near the Thai-Malaysian border. One other officer involved in the ambush, said it believes the women and teenagers were sold to the suspect by the brokers and then forced to work as prostitutes.

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