Human Traffickers

• Proposed Saskatchewan law adds supports for human trafficking victims, survivors

  The Saskatchewan government says new legislation creates a streamlined process for victims to seek a protection order against their human traffickers.

  Canada

  Dec 9, 2020
  
• An Indian train passenger’s tweet helped save 26 girls from child traffickers

  Twenty-six Indian girls have been rescued from the clutches of human traffickers thanks to an alert tweet from a train passenger.

  Crime

  Jul 8, 2018
  
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• Hungary jails migrant smugglers over 71 suffocation deaths

  A Hungarian court sentenced four human traffickers to 25 years in prison each for their roles in the 2015 case in which 71 migrants suffocated to death in the back of a refrigerated truck.

  Crime

  Jun 14, 2018
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• Malaysian police find corpse at abandoned human traffickers’ camp

  Malaysian forensics teams exhumed a body from a shallow grave Tuesday at an abandoned camp used by human traffickers, the first of what police predicted would be more grim findings as they combed through a cluster of jungle camps on the border with Thailand.

  May 26, 2015
• Malaysia finds graves of suspected trafficking victims near Thai border

  Malaysian authorities have discovered graves in at least 17 abandoned camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand where Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar have been held.

  May 24, 2015