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| 01-Jan-06 | Traffickers face action to curb sex trade |
Telegraph David Harrison |
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| Crackdown on the sex trafficking gangs. | |||
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| 05-Jan-06 | UK Government: Consultation on UK's first national action plan to tackle human trafficking | M2 PressWIRE |
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| 05-Jan-06 | Tackling human trafficking | Labour Party |
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| Labour Party statement re: consultation (above). | |||
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| 05-Jan-06 | Exclusive: it's not paying for sex.. it is rape |
The Mirror Rosa Prince |
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| Statement: Home Office minister Paul Goggins | |||
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| 05-Jan-06 | Plans to help trafficking victims | BBC |
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| 03-Feb-06 | Sex trafficker sent to jail |
Manchester Online Mike Slingsby |
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| Albanian Ilir Markvukaj |
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| 07-Feb-06 | Sex trafficking is 'real problem' |
BBC Week in Week Out |
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| 07-Feb-06 | Trafficked women tricked into prostitution |
Western Mail Tryst Williams |
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| 11-Feb-06 | Asians held in Britain brothel raid | Indo-Asian News Service |
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| 13 Asian women and an equal number from England and Latvia arrested during brothel raid. Humberside Police said investigating sex trafficking aspect. | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1622831,00050003.htm | |||
| 21-Feb-06 | Drive to help trafficking victims | BBC | |
| Operation Pentameter | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4734554.stm | |||
| 21-Feb-06 | Sex traffickers campaign launch | Channel 4 News | |
| Operation Pentameter | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=764775 | |||
| 21-Feb-06 | Police launch campaign against sex trafficking | Observer | |
| Operation Pentameter | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1714685,00.html?gusrc=rss | |||
| 21-Feb-06 | Sex slave gangs in cop blitz | Mirror | |
| Operation Pentameter | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/tm_objectid=16731811&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=sex-slave-gangs-in-cop-blitz--name_page.html | |||
| 22-Feb-06 | Airport clampdown on sex traffic trade | Glasgow Evening Times | |
| Operation Pentameter | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5049153.html | |||
| 27-Feb-06 | STOP THE TRAFFICKERS | Mirror | |
| Operation Pentameter | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16752732&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=stop-the-traffickers--name_page.html | |||
| 28-Feb-06 | Sold like a piece of meat |
Mirror Victoria Bone |
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| Lithuanian sex trafficking victim. Albanian gang. | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16755029&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=sold-like-a-piece-of-meat--name_page.html | |||
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| 02-Mar-06 | Canada an “International Embarrassment” on Sex Trafficking |
Lifesite Terry Vanderheyden |
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| 40-page study, titled “Falling Short of the Mark: An International Study on the Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims” released by The Future Group, a leading Canadian non-partisan, non-governmental organization that specializes in combating human trafficking. Canada and the United Kingdom have been singled out for failing to meet their obligations for the protection of victims of human trafficking. | |||
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http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06030209.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GNZsXm1B |
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| 12-Mar-06 | UN chief praises our sex trafficking exposé |
Telegraph David Harrison |
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| 22-Mar-06 | 50 held in sex traffick crackdown |
This is London |
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| Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Lancashire and Northumbria: 14 women, including a 15-year-old girl rescued - Operation Pentameter. Women were allegedly forced into prostitution. Ages: from 15 to 39 and come from a range of eastern European countries. 50 suspected traffickers arrested. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA13441401143021947A00003?source=PA Feed | |||
| 22-Mar-06 | Women rescued in trafficking op | BBC News | |
| Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Lancashire and Northumbria: 14 women, including a 15-year-old girl rescued - Operation Pentameter. Women were allegedly forced into prostitution. Ages: from 15 to 39 and come from a range of eastern European countries. 50 suspected traffickers arrested. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4833224.stm WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GNZsXm1z |
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| 24-Mar-06 | Operation Pentameter One Month on - 14 Women 'Rescued' | Tayside Police | |
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Operation Pentameter According to this article: 14 potential victims of sex trafficking have been identified to date. Pentameter was launched on February 21 with an information campaigned aimed at foreign travellers arriving at UK ports and the operational phase began the same day. Warrants have been issued in brothels, massage parlours and private residents across the UK. 51 arrests have been made for various offences. DCC Grahame Maxwell is the Pentameter Program Director. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://www.taysidepolice.police.uk/newsitem.php?id=434 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GNZsXm2I |
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| 24-Mar-06 | Guilty plea of brothel brothers | Northern Echo | |
| Darlington brothel raided. 6 Thai prostitutes were deported. Mark Cass pleaded guilty to people trafficking within the UK for purposes of prostitution, living off earnings of prostitution and controlling prostitution for gain. Daniel Cass pleaded guilty to keeping a brothel used for prostitution. Sentencing April 10. Police intend to seize assets. | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=189062351 or WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GNZsXm2S |
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| 02-Apr-06 | Raped, beaten and helpless: UK's sex slaves | Observer | |
| Sister Ann Teresa: The Medaille Trust - Safe houses for trafficked women | |||
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| 03-Apr-06 | Purge on asylum seekers leaves violent criminals on streets, says MP |
Telegraph Stewart Payne |
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| Operation Falcon: Since May 2005, Officers have arrested more than 80 suspected illegal immigrants who were involved in drugs and prostitution. |
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| 04-Apr-06 | UK 'FBI' crime unit launched | Herald Sun | |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency launched. Modeled on US FBI. Aim tackling drug traffickers, people smugglers, global pedophile networks & sophisticated fraudsters. It will also focus on those criminals involved in trafficking women, often from eastern Europe, into Britain and forcing them to work as prostitutes. | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18692391^23109,00.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GMFtI0O9 |
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| 04-Apr-06 | 'Evil' sex-trafficking couple stripped of £40,000 |
24 Dash Ian Morgan |
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London Moldovans: Gavril and Tamara Dulghieru ordered to hand over a total of £42,370 |
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| 05-Apr-06 | Tackling Human Trafficking - Consultation on Proposals for a UK Action Plan | UK Home Office | |
| Closing date April 5, 2006 "Human trafficking is a modern day form of slavery which causes great harm to both individuals who are trafficked and to our society and economy as a whole. Tackling human trafficking is a key priority for the UK Government's organised crime strategy. The Government is committed to drawing up a national action plan aimed at combating and preventing human trafficking, as recommended by international organisations such as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on the proposed areas for action and specific initiatives which are proposed as well as an opportunity to suggest other areas where a UK strategy should focus." |
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| ORIGINAL: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/TacklingTrafficking.pdf | |||
| 07-Apr-06 | £2.4 million to help UK human sex trafficking victims |
24 Dash Ian Morgan |
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| Home Office Minister Paul Goggins announcement re: £2.4 million in government funding to help set up a 24-hour national outreach service for the UK victims of human sex trafficking through the POPPY scheme (Eaves Housing for Women.) Funding will be provided over the next two years: team of 4 outreach workers, continued provision of *25* beds in safe house, 10 new "step-down" places, resource pack (info and advice for victims), other support projects and law enforcement personnel. | |||
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| 07-Apr-06 | UK Government: First outreach service for victims of trafficking | M2 Communications | |
| Home Office Minister Paul Goggins announcement re: 24 hour outreach service that will be set up through the Poppy scheme. See above. Further info regarding Operation Pentameter (launched Feb 21), a national operation looking at the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. Resulted to date in 14 women being rescued and 51 alleged traffickers arrested. | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=195246&NewsAreaID=2 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkB1 |
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| 10-Apr-06 | Cash to help sex trafficking victims |
Community Newswire Rosamond Hutt |
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London Eaves Housing for Women has been awarded £2.4m in Government funding over two years for the Poppy Project which provides help to women who have been trafficked into the UK and forced to work in the sex industry. Crisis accommodation for 25 women, additional 10 places for victims needing less intensive protection and support. Over 100 sex trafficking victims helped by Poppy Project to date. Over half women were from Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States and the remainder came from Nigeria; Thailand; Malaysia; Uganda; Vietnam; China; and Mongolia. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://www.communitynewswire.press.net/article.jsp?id=299164 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkBB |
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| 20-Apr-06 | Scotland Yard agents dispatched in Albania | Makfax | |
| Scotland Yard agents are in Albania to check bank accounts of Albanian migrants in UK allegedly involved in illegal drugs trade and prostitution rings | |||
| ORIGINAL: http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrArticle= 20380&NrIssue=444&NrSection=20 |
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| 21-Apr-06 | Three women are arrested during sex traffickers hunt |
The Herald Graeme Smith |
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Operation Pentameter Three Brazilian women were arrested and £30,000 recovered from a flat in Dundee which was raided as part of an operation to combat sex trafficking. A number of other people also arrested during raids. Over 60 suspected sex traffickers arrested to date as part of Operation Pentameter. In raids on brothels in England and Wales, 14 sex trafficking victims including 15 year old girl were freed. Most traffickers have been eastern Europeans but two alleged British traffickers arrested in south Wales. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/60502.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkBl |
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| 23-Apr-06 | London's criminal families replaced by ethnic gangs |
Telegraph Ben Leapman |
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London Police intelligence report concludes that in London there are 180 crime gangs speaking 24 languages - international networks involved in murders, drug dealing, prostitution and people trafficking *as the opportunities arise*. |
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| 24-Apr-06 | Arrests at sex trafficking raids | BBC News | |
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North Wales According to this article: Three women rescued and five people arrested. Locations include: Anglesey, Conwy and Denbighshire. Women were from China, Malaysia and Namibia and have been taken to a safe place. Also see: North Wales Police press release |
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| ORIGINAL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4941960.stm WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GvyRBXO6 |
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| 25-Apr-06 | London's ethnic gangs 'running out of control' | 24dash | |
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London According to this article: Police warned that gangs from London's ethnic minority communities are running "out of control" and are involved in organised crime including people-trafficking and fake passports. |
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| 25-Apr-06 | Traffickers have created '21st Century slave trade' | Cambridge News | |
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Operation Maxim According to this article: Police chiefs say that criminal gangs are out of control. They are trading in fake passports and exploiting illegal immigration. Counterfeit passport and ID paper trading is occurring on an uncontrollable scale, according to Superintendent Bob Murrill. Police admit that neither they nor the Home Office know the scale of people trafficking - often of women into prostitution. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2006/04/25/d73cca9b-d004-49d7-b5ea-0e42842e7613.lpf WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkCW |
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| 25-Apr-06 | 'Porn site' film urges men to report sex trafficking | Guardian | |
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Crimestoppers freesextraffic.co.uk According to this article: An internet film that aims to persuade men who visit prostitutes to pass information on sex trafficking to the authorities has been launched by Crimestoppers. It is designed to look like a porn site. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1761177,00.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GMEkklR0 |
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| 25-Apr-06 | UN urges Balkan nations to fight human trafficking | DTT-NET.COM | |
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UN report on human trafficking According to this article: Trafficked victims from countries in Central and South Eastern Europe are reported to be trafficked mainly to EU Western countries: Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Austria, France and Spain. According to the report “virtually every country in the world is affected by the crime of human trafficking in millions of people for sexual exploitation or forced labour”. “Governments must take serious steps to eliminate a scourge whose main victims are women and children." |
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| 25-Apr-06 | City sex traffickers jailed |
Birmingham Post Emma Pinch |
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Birmingham Garden of Eden Massage Parlour in Yardley (and others) According to this article: Sex Traffickers: Albanian Lorenc Goduni and Lithuanian Simona Kazakaite. Goduni sentenced to 7 years for trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation. Kazakaite sentenced to 4 years for conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and conspiracy to cause or incite prostitution. It was West Midlands' first successful human trafficking prosecution. The 18 year old Lithuanian victim was lured to the UK in an internet chatroom and then forced to work in Birmingham brothels. Detective Constable Tom Kavanagh said that human trafficking was "massively widespread" in Britain's cities. |
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| 25-Apr-06 | South Yorkshire Police - Press Release | South Yorkshire Police | |
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Operation Pentameter According to this article: Men who use prostitutes are a vital link in the sex trafficking chain
The Home Office consultation document on prostitution, Paying the Price quotes research suggesting that the average man who pays for sex as, "a man of around 30 years of age, married, in full time employment, and with no criminal convictions." It also quotes the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (2001) which found 4.3% of UK men aged 16-44 reported having paid for sex in the past 5 years. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://southyorks.police.uk/news/details.php?id=2543 | |||
| 26-Apr-06 | UK anti-human trafficking campaign | Polskie Radio | |
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According to this article: British authorities argue that Poland’s accession to the EU has made it that much easier for traffickers to recruit their victims. |
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| 26-Apr-06 | UK part of modern day slave trade, say police |
ABC Rafael Epstein |
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Operation Maxim According to senior Scotland Yard detectives, sex trafficking in the UK has reached unprecedented proportions. |
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| 02-May-06 | Global trade in sex slaves 'out of control' |
Tonight Deborah Orr |
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Operation Pentameter Report: Trafficking In Persons: Global Patterns According to this article: "Citing 127 countries from which women are trafficked and 137 countries that are favoured as destinations, Global Patterns confirms that the vast majority of trafficked humans are women bought and sold to be put to work in the sex trade. The nations cited as being the most commonly targeted destinations include Germany. In a chilling insight into the sporting life, it is estimated that anything up to 40 000 extra sex workers are likely to be smuggled into the country in the coming weeks, in anticipation of huge demand for prostitutes during the World Cup." "A 2003 report estimates that close to a million people are trafficked across borders to feed the sex trade. It is suggested that up to half a million women work in the 12 countries that until recently formed the European Community (now, many woman are trafficked from the new member states). Figures issued by police officers involved in Operation Parameter suggest that in London alone 5 000 women are working as slaves in the sex industry, and are forced to see between 20 and 30 men a day. One woman who escaped claimed to have been forced to see 80 men on one Christmas day." |
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| 02-May-06 | Courts to get guide on deportations | ic Scotland | |
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According to this article: Foreigners convicted of murder, sex offences, fraud and people trafficking could be automatically recommended for deportation under proposed new guidelines for courts. |
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| 02-May-06 | Arrests in sex trafficking raids | BBC News | |
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Operation Pentameter North Manchester - Clayton / Cheetham Hill According to this article: 4 arrests on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic women for sexual exploitation, controlling prostitution and false imprisonment. 6 women taken into protective custody. |
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| 03-May-06 | 'Sex slaves' raid on cops' doorstep |
Manchester Evening News Nicola Dowling |
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Operation Pentameter Cheetham Hill According to this article: Three Czech men, two aged 36 and one 30, and an Albanian woman, 25, were arrested at the sauna on Cheetham Hill Road, across the road from Cheetham Hill police station. Six women were also taken by police from two terraced houses in Langness Street and Canberra Street in Clayton. The women have not been arrested but have been offered support and advice. Authorities will work to strip the criminal gangs of their assets and wealth gained through the exploitation of women. (Also see: "Police swoop on sauna in sex trafficking clampdown" / 24 dash) |
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| 07-May-06 | A World of Pain: Vice Shame of Football Showcase |
Sunday Mail Rosie Kane |
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OPINION Rosie Kane According to this article: Sex trafficking of women. UK a "favourite destination" "Last year a woman from Russia came to see me. She needed help and I gradually heard, with mounting horror, her story. She was happy at home with her Russian boyfriend, a powerful man with an influential job. She was looking forward to a future with him. But her boyfriend was a gangster who made a fortune by luring women into his lair before shutting the trap door. He then sold his unsuspecting victims to vice gangs. The woman fled Russia and came to Scotland for her own safety. She claimed asylum and explained that if she returned she would be recaptured and punished. But her claim was rejected and she was forced to go back. I haven't heard from her since." |
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| 07-May-06 | Raids uncover 'sex trafficking' | BBC News | |
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Kent According to this article: 28 people were arrested and 7 suspected sex trafficking victims were rescued after raids on brothels in Kent. Police believe the 7 victims are only a fraction of those affected. Many of the people arrested have been served with extradition papers. Police believe that at least £1.5m is spent a week in Kent brothels, that there are about 300 brothels in Kent and that approximately 1500 women are trafficked into the UK yearly. |
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| 08-May06 | Sex trafficking crackdown rescues 44 women | icWales | |
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Operation Pentameter 44 women, (mainly aged 18 to 22) and 2 teenage girls (aged 15 and 17) allegedly forced into prostitution have been rescued. 154 arrests have been made. They largely come from Eastern Europe and the Balkans as well as Thailand, China and Brazil. Operation Pentameter was launched in February 2006 and involves all 55 police forces in the UK, ROI and Channel Islands. Nearly 400 raids to date and almost £170,000 has been seized. Charges have included human trafficking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, controlling prostitution and rape.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=17047667&method=full&siteid= |
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| 08-May06 | Sex trafficking victims found in brothel blitz | Scotsman | |
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Kent Police raided brothels across Kent and arrested 28 people. 7 suspected victims of sex trafficking were found. |
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| 08-May06 | Sex trafficking op 'rescues 46' | BBC News | |
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Operation Pentameter (as above) 154 arrests. Victims are largely from eastern Europe and the Balkans. Almost 400 operations have been carried out, with 19 forces in England, Scotland and Wales rescuing women thought to be victims of sex trafficking. Operation Pentameter also involves the Home Office and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. |
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| ORIGINAL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4751039.stm | |||
| 08-May-06 | Nightmare world of suburban sex slaves |
Guardian Paul Lewis |
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According to this article: A report on a government campaign against trafficking, published on this date, indicates that a new market in young South American women is changing the face the British sex trade. Traffickers are being paid as much as £8,000 per victim, the girls are as young as 15 and an increasing number of them are being held in suburban houses. They have been raped, threatened, stripped of passports and forced into underground brothels upon arrival in the UK. Many came believing they would get lucrative jobs. Trafficking gangs have posed as employment agencies and insisted on parental permission to allow the girls to travel. Critics of Operation Pentameter say police have used their inquiries as an excuse to find and deport illegal immigrants. Officers have found that trafficked women - particularly virgins - are being sold between trafficking gangs for as much as £8,000. |
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| 09-May06 | Victims released as police target trafficking gangs | Yorkshire Today | |
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Operation Pentameter 40 suspected sex trafficking victims have been released to date. After two months of operation, investigators have found 46 people believed to have been forced into prostitution and have arrested 154 people believed to be responsible. Other details as above. |
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| 09-May06 | Woman saved from the evil sex traffickers |
Leeds Today David Bruce |
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Operation Pentameter West Yorks West Yorkshire police rescued Czech sex trafficking victim. She is currently in hiding at a secret refuge. The woman contacted police last month. Two men are awaiting trial in her case - a Greek and a Kosovan. They were arrested during raids in Leeds and Huddersfield. One brothel in Woodhouse, Leeds has been closed. Raids on saunas, brothels and private addresses suspected to be involved in the vice trade will continue. |
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| 10-May-06 | 19 rescued in sex traffic swoop |
Independent Neville Dean |
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London Operation Pentameter Pentameter involves all 55 police forces in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Channel Islands. Nearly 400 raids have taken place nationwide, 154 arrests have been made and £170,000 has been seized. According to this article: 12 people were arrested and 19 sex trafficking victims were rescued after police raided 7 addresses in London and the West Midlands. 13 of the women were rescued from a Paddington brothel and 6 from a Birmingham brothel. They were taken to specialist reception centers and given access to services. The ringleader and his partner are believed to be Vietnamese and were arrested at a London hotel and charged with trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and conspiracy to control prostitution for gain. The trafficking network is suspected of trafficking Malaysian women into the UK for the purposes of prostitution. The Salvation Army has offered to provide accommodation for the victims.
Also see: "19 women rescued in 'brothel' raids" - "In the News UK" |
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| 10-May-06 | Police find 19 women in sex trafficking raids | Guardian | |
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London Operation Pentameter (As Above) According to this article: 12 people were arrested and 19 sex trafficking victims (all thought to have been trafficked from Malaysia) were rescued after police raided 7 addresses in London and the West Midlands. Officers have heard accounts of women being raped, threatened, stripped of passports and forced into brothels on arrival in the UK. Amnesty International said that even the women who were brought to the country against their will are being deported if they refuse to assist with police investigations. Research into sex trafficking has revealed a new growing market in young women from South America that is changing the face of Britain's sex trade. Traffickers are being paid as much as £8,000 a victim and police across the country have discovered an increasing number of young women being held in suburban houses. |
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| 11-May-06 | Campaigners welcome trafficking raid, but express concern for women | Ekklesia.co.uk | |
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Operation Pentameter (As Above) According to this article: Although welcoming the police crackdown on people traffickers, human rights and church-based campaigners in the UK have expressed concern for women freed in the raids. Mike Blakemore (Amnesty International) said: “Amnesty welcomes the police crackdown on traffickers and their vicious trade in women who are held prisoner and forced to work as prostitutes. But we need to know now what protection the women reportedly rescued from these properties are receiving ... The fact is, currently, trafficked women have no guaranteed protection in the UK. The law sees them simply as illegal immigrants and British people would be appalled to know that many of them are deported to countries where they could be at serious risk of being re-trafficked ... Victims of trafficking have had all of their very basic human rights violated we must turn the system around so that they are recognised as the victims and not the perpetrators of crime. The UK government must sign up to the new European Convention Against Trafficking.” Angela Perkins (National Board of Catholic Women) said: "We fully support the comments made by Amnesty International. With them and many others the NBCW continues to lobby the government to sign up to the European Convention Against Trafficking and provide care and a safe return for those women who have been so appallingly exploited ... While we know provision for rescued women is inadequate, many Roman Catholic Religious Orders are already involved in rehabilitation work in Albania and in setting up safe houses here in England ... It would be an act of justice if some of the millions of money confiscated by the government from convicted traffickers was released in order to help these projects." The European Convention Against Trafficking guarantees trafficked people a 'reflection period' of at least 30 days during which time they can receive support to aid their recovery, including safe housing and emergency medical support; It also offers temporary residence permits for trafficked people who may be in danger if they return to their country, and/or if it is necessary to assist criminal proceedings. CHASTE (Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking in Europe) has been developing a network of European Churches responding to the problem. There is also coordination through the Churches’ Commission on Migrants in Europe of an EU funded project connecting churches and church agencies involved in anti-trafficking initiatives and survivor support. |
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| 11-May-06 | 13 held in raid on Hyde Park brothel | Gulf Times | |
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Operation Pentameter London According to this article: Police raided an up-market brothel on May 10th as a result of investigations into a multi-million pound people trafficking racket. The brothel catered to businessmen and was located in a Hyde Park townhouse located a few streets from Tony Blair's £3.6mn Connaught Square property. 13 Malaysian women were rescued (aged between 19 and 25) and were taken to support centers. It is believed that as many as 40 men per day paid more than £100 at the brothel. 12 people were arrested including the suspected ringleader, who is Vietnamese and is believed to have paid £6,000 a month rent on the premises in Hyde Park Street. At least two brothels in London and Birmingham are believed to be part of the trafficking network which police said was one of the largest networks they had run across to date. Interpol is involved in the investigation. The network is suspected of trafficking hundreds of women into Heathrow from Malaysia. |
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| 11-May-06 | Malaysian women rescued in London anti-vice raids | New Straits Times | |
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Operation Pentameter London According to this article: 19 Malaysian women believed to be victims of an international sex trafficking ring were rescued during raids in London on May 10th. Then other Malaysians were arrested. Police intend to enforce asset forfeiture laws. |
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| 11-May-06 | Malaysian women rescued from London sex ring |
The Star Online Choi Tuck Wo |
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Operation Pentameter London (As above) 19 Malaysian women were rescued from two brothels during a pre-dawn crackdown on a multi-million human-trafficking racket. 13 of the women were found in a townhouse in Hyde Park and six others in another brothel in Birmingham. The women will be given access to health professionals, interpreters and specially trained sexual offences investigators. All 19 women were taken to the Sundbury Detention Centre outside London and interviewed by Malaysian High Commission officials. |
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/11/nation/14214849&sec=nation WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GJyvj8KQ |
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| 12-May-06 | Sex traffickers arrested after vice squad swoop on Paddington |
Ham and High: Wood and Vale Edition Marijke Peters |
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Operation Pentameter London (As above) According to this article: 7 men were arrested for suspicion of sex trafficking after a vice raid in Paddington. 13 Malaysian women were rescued. Police also raided addresses in Soho, Birmingham and Berkhamsted, made further arrests and rescued another six women. "Lynda King Taylor, chairwoman of the sector working group, which has worked closely with the police on the issue of prostitution in Westminster said: "These are not just £20 per hour job prostitutes, this was always part of a huge human trafficking ring and serious organised crime." Residents in Marylebone are fighting a government plan to allow mini-brothels to operate on a legal basis. |
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| 16-May-06 | Police in people smuggling raids | BBC News | |
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Operation Pentameter Gloucestershire Police searched a number of homes in Cheltenham suspected of housing victims of people trafficking. |
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| 16-May-06 | Sex trade crackdown | Yorkshire Today | |
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Operation Pentameter Leeds / Bradford Suspected brothels raided. 50 year old man and 45 year old woman arrested on suspicion of managing brothels and later released. |
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| 18-May-06 | Why sex traffic must be brought to a halt: Shame of Britain's forgotten women |
Mirror Kate Allen |
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| 25-May-06 | Operation Pentameter sheds light on Thames Valley sex industry | Aylesbury Today | |
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| 26-May-06 | Police rescue two sex slaves | Get Reading | |
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Operation Pentameter Reading One Chinese woman and one Lithuanian woman who were victims of sex trafficking in Reading were rescued by police. Two other women, from China and Papua New Guinea, were rescued from other parts of the Thames Valley. |
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http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/2001/2001882/police_rescue_two_sex_slaves WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GJyvj8MC |
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| 26-May-06 | Brothel girl rescued | Oxford Mail | |
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Operation Pentameter Oxfordshire Police raided 12 brothels in Oxfordshire. One Chinese prostitute who was a victim of sex trafficking was rescued from a brothel in Ferry Hinksey Rd, Oxford. 18 prostitutes from 12 countries were interviewed by police. Across the Thames Valley, 75 prostitutes were spoken to in 43 brothels and four women who were believed to have been trafficked were rescued. The prostitutes interviewed by police in Oxfordshire were from across the world, including Thailand, China, Malaysia, Kosovo, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Britain and Zimbabwe, as well as the UK. |
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| 26-May-06 | Trafficking must be the target | Oxford Mail | |
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Operation Pentameter Police identified 12 brothels in Oxfordshire and rescued a Chinese woman from one in Oxford. |
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| 26-May-06 | West Berkshire police infiltrate sex industry | Newbury Today | |
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Operation Pentameter As above. |
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| 26-May-06 | 7 charged after UK sex trafficking swoop | 24 Dash | |
| Seven people were arrested and charged on suspicion of controlling prostitution. Five men and two women will appear before magistrates in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, to answer the charges. Warrants were executed in Burton upon Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Worcestershire and Devon. Six detainees are believed to be Chinese. The seventh is a 61-year-old man from Barnstaple. Four women have been taken to a safe location. |
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| 30-May-06 | Police free sex slaves from Reading brothels | icBerksire | |
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| 30-May-06 | Police raid on brothels | Milton Keynes Today | |
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| 04-Jun-06 | How the new Fagins are bringing child slavery to Britain |
Telegraph Olga Craig, Bojan Pancevski, David Harrison |
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| 04-Jun-06 | Hundreds of child slaves sold into UK every year |
Telegraph David Harrison |
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| 04-Jun-06 |
'Slaves' sold at British airports and 'Slaves' sold at British airports |
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| "Slave auctions" of women sold into prostitution are being carried out on the concourses of British airports | |||
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| 04-Jun-06 | 'Slaves auctioned' by traffickers | BBC News | |
| Airports are being used by people smugglers to hold "slave auctions" of women being sold into prostitution, said the Crown Prosecution Service. | |||
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