Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Trafficking

Drug-dealing reality TV star avoids jail

Reality TV star Christopher Mark Jensen has received a suspended prison sentence for drug trafficking after waiting almost five years for the verdict.

AAP

Ex-footballers to cycle around clubs ‘to show red card to human trafficking’

The cycle is to take place on August 19 around five football clubs in the North East.

The Independent UK

The Satanic Panic Is Back, and It's Bipartisan

Plus: Criminal sentencing before the Supreme Court, TikTok pushes back against security threat claims, and more...

Reason

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Rights leader warned Congress about Haiti gangs. But the problem has only gotten worse

When the number of gang-involved massacres in Haiti stood at five a few years ago, the head of a leading human rights group warned U.S. lawmakers about the Caribbean nation’s exploding crises of gang violence and firearms trafficking.

Miami Herald

Prosecutors in Argentina say opera star Plácido Domingo had dealings with sex trafficking ring

Authorities obtained a wiretap that prosecutors say includes Domingo's voice.

Axios

FBI rescues more than 200 sex trafficking victims, including 84 children

‘As we did in this operation, the FBI and our partners will continue to find and arrest traffickers, identify and help victims, and raise awareness of the exploitation [of] our most vulnerable populations’

The Independent UK

Matt Gaetz’s GOP opponent launches ad suggesting he was Mar-a-Lago informant

Florida representative, who faces an ongoing sex trafficking investigation, has cultivated a reputation as a hardcore Trumpist

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

What We Know About the FBI's Latest National 'Human Trafficking' Sting

Plus: Book ban enthusiasm ensnares Bible, free speech for nutrition advice, and more...

Reason

Woman and son trafficked lolly cannabis

A Tasmanian woman who trafficked cannabis-oil-infused gummy lollies in an operation with her son was motivated by wanting to help pain sufferers.

AAP

Feds investigating Black Hammer Party in wide-ranging criminal probe

ATLANTA — The Black Hammer Party, an Atlanta-based extremist group that preaches violent revolution against the United States government, is the target of a joint investigation by the FBI and the Fayetteville Police Department on a charges ranging from weapons offenses and narcotics to kidnapping and human trafficking.

Tribune News Service

Papua New Guinea’s undocumented children face ‘perfect storm of vulnerability’

Just 15% of children in PNG have their birth registered. Without a birth certificate, trafficking and exploitation are far easier

The Guardian - AU

Ecuador city declares state of emergency amid dramatic rise in gang bombings

Gangs in Guayaquil use increasingly violent tactics in battle for dominance of cocaine trafficking routes to Europe and the US

The Guardian - US

R. Kelly is going on trial in Chicago after being convicted in New York

R. Kelly's federal trial in Chicago is starting. The singer faces a slew of legal battles and was already sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering.

WEKU

Brittney Griner legal team appeals against Russian drugs sentence

The defence team of Brittney Griner, the U.S. basketball star jailed for nine years in Russia on drugs charges, appealed on Monday against her conviction for narcotics possession and trafficking.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Teen trafficking victim describes horror after not seeing daylight in two years

Dai was just 14 when he was tricked into leaving his home and going to work in another country under the false promise of better pay and job opportunities in China

The Japan News/Yomiuri

NPO planned organ transplants in Sri Lanka

In a case of suspected organ trafficking in living donor kidney transplants, a nonprofit organization in Japan had planned transplants in Sri Lanka this year and told an overseas coordinator it would send "two patients [at intervals] for a total of about 10 patients," The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned from…

The Guardian - UK

UK’s people trafficking referrals at record high, Home Office data shows

Government’s system for potential trafficking victims to access support had 4,171 referrals from April to June

Bangkok Post

Buried, murdered couple may have links to drug smugglers, say police

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The slain Vietnamese woman and Nigerian man recently found buried in Chok Chai district were lovers, and their deaths may be linked to transnational crystal methamphetamine trafficking, according to police.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

Home Ministry urges high courts to hold judicial colloquium on human trafficking

The ministry said it will provide a financial support of up to ₹2 lakh on each judicial colloquium to be held anywhere in the country

The Times of India

Bihar: Cops probe human trafficking racket as girl escapes dragnet

BETTIAH: An 18-year-old girl from an economically disadvantaged family escaped the dragnet of an allegedly organised human trafficking racket by reaching out to senior police officers in Bettiah. However, her petition to the Mahila Thana points to organised rackets in trafficking of girls from poor families. "The girl is safe.…

Bangkok Post

Govt 'ready' to repatriate Ramai from Myanmar

The government is ready to repatriate film director and renowned fight choreographer Ramai "Danny" Moriphan, who was kidnapped in Myanmar over his alleged links to a drug trafficking syndicate, assistant national police chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, said on Monday.

Reuters

U.S. slams China's 'unacceptable' disruption in countering fentanyl

China's move to suspend cooperation with the United States to combat narcotics trafficking, including illicit fentanyl, is "unacceptable," the White House said on Monday, as Beijing continued to protest a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Fake passport used to pass off transplant as between relatives

The price per kidney was 15,000, dollars the equivalent today of about 2 million yen. The kidney transplant for the Japanese patient was conducted in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. A Japanese nonprofit organization acted as an intermediary. A passport was forged for the Ukrainian donor to make it…

The Guardian - UK

More than 18,000 refugees have crossed Channel in small boats this year – MoD

Figure passed as charities criticise Mail on Sunday’s claims about ‘economic migrants’ from Albania

Bangkok Post

Trafficking in tiers and fears

The government sighed with relief when the country's anti-trafficking performance moved up from the Tier 2 Watchlist to Tier 2 in the US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, released on July 19.

1 … 125 126 127 128

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Institute for Justice

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.