Trafficking

Articles Trafficking Trial: Accused Gets Queasy in Court and is Hospitalized

11:29 | January 17, 2013
Once again, the trial of Gyumri resident Sousanna M., convicted of tracking in Trebizon, Turkey, had to be postponed on January 15. At the last minute, the accused decided she wanted to switch her defense attorney.

Articles Gyumri Family Reunited: Boys Escape Clutches of Armenian Businessman in Russia

12:06 | January 11, 2013
Hetq readers may remember the harrowing tale of Gohar, a Gyumri mother of five, and two of her boys who were essentially working as slave labourers in the Russian town of Lipovtsi, near Vladivostok.

News Dutch Hospital To Lead Organ Trafficking Probe

20:37 | November 17, 2012
A three-year international probe, based in the Netherlands, will investigate the illegal trafficking of human organs, researchers announced on Thursday.

News Central America: Cocaine Still King

00:17 | October 3, 2012
Cocaine trafficking and associated violence are still the chief criminal issues affecting Central America, according to a new UNODC threat assessment. But because of the increasingly inhospitable drug environment in Mexico, thanks to a crackdown that began in 2006, traffickers have shifted their focus to new routes along the Guatemala/Honduras border, the assessment said. Displacement to the Caribbean is also a threat.

News Bulgaria Top In Human Trafficking In Europe

23:08 | August 15, 2012
Bulgaria is one of the top European Union countries in terms of human trafficking, according to Bulgaria’s National Committee for the Fight against Human Trafficking.

News Balkans: Shifting Landscape of Human Trafficking

11:38 | August 7, 2012
A raggedy child tap-dancing on the sidewalk in front of a box to collect coins. A man in a foreign country far from his home working long hours at backbreaking labor. A young girl apparently doing endless chores at a neighbor’s house in some rural neighborhood.

News Russia: Traffickers Send Cocaine By Mail

00:26 | July 31, 2012
Online cocaine trade in Russia is on the rise, and traffickers are increasingly relying on mail services to deliver cocaine to buyers, RIA news reports.

News Bosnia: Human Trafficking Network Dismantled

23:12 | July 13, 2012
Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian authorities working together have dismantled an organized crime group that smuggled illegal migrants through the Balkans into Western Europe. The operation dubbed “Loca” was conducted at the request of the State Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovin and nabbed 12 suspects.

News Trafficking in Persons Report 2012 on Armenia

22:45 | June 22, 2012
Armenia is a source country for women and girls subjected to sex trafficking, as well as a source country for women and men subjected to forced labor. To a lesser extent it has been a destination country for women subjected to forced labor. Women and girls from Armenia are subjected to sex trafficking in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, and within the country. Armenian men and women are subjected to forced labor in Russia. Armenian boys have been subjected to forced labor within the country. An NGO reported a new trend of labor migrants withdrawing their children from school and taking them abroad as helpers; these children are vulnerable to conditions of forced labor.

News Bulgarian Human Trafficking Network Dismantled

00:04 | June 16, 2012
Nine members of an international human trafficking network were arrested on Tuesday, Europol announced. Law enforcement and judicial authorities of Bulgaria, Belgium, France and Poland conducted a joint operation coordinated by Europol and the European Union’s Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust).

News Israel: Alleged Mastermind Of Kosovo Organ Trafficking Reported Arrested

12:23 | May 26, 2012
Turkish-born Israeli doctor Moshe Harel may have been arrested on Thursday, EU special prosecutor Jonathan Ratel said. An alleged ring-leader of an international organ trafficking ring, Harel is suspected of organizing 30 illegal kidney transplants at the Medicus clinic in Pristina, Kosovo in 2008.

News Israel: Ten Arrested In Organ Trafficking Bust

21:47 | May 23, 2012
Israeli police arrested ten people on Tuesday morning on suspicion that they belong to an international organ trafficking ring. They are also suspected of extortion, tax fraud, and inflicting grievous bodily harm. Among the suspects is one doctor.

News Trafficking in Human Beings and Organs in Sinai: Everything's the Same

12:14 | April 30, 2012
Trafficking in human beings and organs in the Sinai, surrounded by the indifference, is tragic just like it was before. Here is another case of abduction and atrocities against a young Eritrean.

News Kosovo Doctor Rejects Organ Trafficking Accusations

23:13 | March 6, 2012
Lutfi Dervishi, the owner of a Kosovo clinic accused of organ trafficking, said he has been libeled by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), an international administrative body that oversees the country. Dervishi made the comments in an interview with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) in Kosovo.

News Romanian Human Trafficker Sentenced to 30 Years

18:28 | February 25, 2012
Ioan Clamparu, 42, an alleged Romanian human trafficker known as “Pigs’ Head,” was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a court in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday. Clamparu was one of the 450 fugitives targeted by the Interpol’s operation “Infra-Red,” aimed at locating and arresting international fugitives charged with serious crimes such as murder, child abuse, human trafficking, and money laundering.

News Criminal Case Initiated on Sexual Exploitation of Several Residents of Gyumri in Turkey

22:42 | February 20, 2012
The Police Investigation Division of Shirak region initiated a criminal case on the sexual exploitation of several residents of Gyumri in Turkey.

News Russia Investigates Kosovo Organ Trafficking Case

13:44 | January 21, 2012
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been following the investigation into organ trafficking in Kosovo, according to the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant,.

News RA Prosecutor General Orders Investigation Into Hetq Article Charges

12:17 | January 18, 2012
RA Prosecutor General orders investigation of Hetq article involving "indentured servitude" of two Armenian boys in Russia's Far East.

News 608 People Arrested as China Police Smash Child-Trafficking Ring

17:14 | December 8, 2011
Chinese police have busted two child-trafficking rings after a six-month nationwide investigation, rescuing 178 children and arresting 608 suspects, the country's Ministry of Public Security announced this week.

Articles Court Pardons Women "Pimps" at Gyumri Sauna

13:00 | July 23, 2011
The three defendants, in their closing remarks, stated that they were truly sorry for their actions and pleaded for the court to pardon them.

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