Horror headlines of human trafficking
- Source: Global Times
- [22:42 November 11 2009]
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January 23, 2005
Eight abducted Chinese workers are returned to the Chinese embassy in Iraq. The ambiguous wording of the embassy's press release, describing the eight as 'individual migrant workers” leads the China Youth Daily and other media to speculate they had illegally entered Iraq.
April 28, 2006
Zhao Wenjie, 42, and Zha Yiwen, 32, stand trial for the abduction and disappearance of almost 100 Chinese children in Sweden, according to the Yangtze Evening News.
All the children applied for asylum on arrival at Stockholm airport but went missing from their shelter shortly afterward.
After fake identity documents are found in their home, the evidence mounts that at least 46 were sent to Italy by the couple.
The couple faces two to 10 years' imprisonment if the judge believes they are criminals, according to the Chinese version Global Times on May 8.
August 20, 2008
He Cheng, leader of a national human trafficking organization, is sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment by the Wuhan Intermediate Court, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Most of the 320 persons named in the case are still missing. Using the name of several travel agents, He Cheng's organization dispatched peasants and unemployed workers to the Netherlands, France and Romania with counterfeit documents.
June 22, 2009
Three Chinese nationals are sentenced to 36 years' imprisonment each with hard labor by the Accra Circuit Court after being found guilty of trafficking their own nationals for prostitution in Ghana, according to the June 26 New Crusade Guide of Ghana.
The sex mafia recruits, transports and harbors young Chinese women for prostitution.
The eight victims were hired to run a restaurant business and had to be rescued from “a state of enslavement”. They loudly celebrate their slave masters' conviction.
