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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tess de La Mare

Traffickers will escape justice if victims treated like criminals, charity warns

Leaving survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery in legal limbo over their immigration status risks undermining successful prosecutions, a victims’ charity has warned.

Hope for Justice warned people rescued from forced labour can often spend years waiting to learn whether they will be deported to their country of origin.

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