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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

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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

Daily Mirror

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 Japan News/Yomiuri

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Bangkok Post

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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 Hindu

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.…

The Times of India

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.

Bangkok Post

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.

Reuters

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 Japan News/Yomiuri

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Bangkok Post

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Dublin Live

Kinahan cartel flew millions of cocaine into Ireland on private plane

Investigators believe the cocaine was organised by the cartel and was to be sold to a number of groups.

The Times of India

Kolkata: A business enterprise that empowers sex workers, transgenders & poor

KOLKATA: A handful of talented but marginalised women - underprivileged, sex workers, trafficking victims and transgenders - have been receiving support from an unusual quarter to rebuild their lives. Businessman Namit Bajoria has been the pillar of hope for these women, and some young children, for whom 'Kutchina Krritika' turned…

Manchester Evening News

Special unit set up to beat modern slavery and human trafficking

Team will support victims of serious and organised crime

Dublin Live

Airplane and cocaine worth millions seized in huge garda raid spanning four counties

Two men were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking as part of the ongoing probe targeting drug-related organised crime

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Irish Mirror

Plane seized as gardai find 120kg of cocaine worth €8.4 million in operation

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking

Al Jazeera

Singapore executions under scrutiny as more hanged for drugs

Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation, and the ethnicities of the condemned.

Daily Record

Heroin stash worth almost £100,000 found in bush near historic Stirling Castle walkway

City joiner with drug trafficking record is jailed for six years and four months at High Court in Glasgow.

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh: At Sishu Gruhas, infants cry themselves to sleep as world marks Breastfeeding Week

Rise in child trafficking cases pathetic, says APSCPCR Chairman

Daily Mirror

Fighting the modern slavery that is hiding in plain sight is more important that pulling down old statues

Owner of car wash taken to court over pay and conditions of migrant workers

Liverpool Echo

Man claims 'mafia guards' forced him to look after cannabis farm

An appeal court heard the Vietnamese national was forced to tend to the illicit crop - although he had a car and cash

Reuters

New Colombia government to propose incentives to crime gang members who disarm

Incoming Colombian President Gustavo Petro will propose the Clan del Golfo crime gang disarm and inform the government about its drug trafficking in exchange for unspecified incentives, his foreign minister said on Wednesday.

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