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Feds call for Ghislaine Maxwell to be sentenced to 30 to 55 years for ‘monstrous crimes’

Federal prosecutors recommended that Ghislaine Maxwell be sentenced to 30 to 55 years in prison, which would effectively be a life sentence for the 60-year-old former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Car wash slave-drivers jailed for years-long reign of terror

Pair’s squalid home described by victim as ‘gate to hell’

The Independent UK

Ghislaine Maxwell: US prosecutors urge 30-year minimum prison sentence

Prosecutors make recommendation in court filing a week before Maxwell’s sentencing for sex-trafficking conviction

The Guardian - US

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Cruel couple kept ten slaves locked in house of horrors dubbed ‘gate to hell’

Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska have been jailed for a total of 26 years for their roles in the human trafficking operation.

Daily Record

Inside house of horrors dubbed 'gate to hell' where vile couple kept slaves

Maros Tancos and Joanne Gomulska forced the vulnerable slaves to carry out almost £1million of work for free

Manchester Evening News

Twisted couple kept 10 slaves locked in UK house of horrors dubbed 'gate to hell'

Victims of Maros Tancos and Joanna Gomulska described living with 10 people in a three-bedroom home, sharing a bathroom and sleeping on filthy mattresses, and were locked inside when the couple went out

Daily Mirror

Bristol human trafficking case: National Crime Agency reveals how couple were caught

Maros Tancos and his partner Joanna Gomulska frittered money away as the slaves they exploited lived in squalor

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Bristol car wash couple jailed for human trafficking of Slovakian immigrants

"You treated the victims of your conspiracy as if they were cattle"

Bristol Post

Murder suspect arrested in Greece as cocaine cartel smashed

The men arrested in Greece are said to be at the top of a major international cartel

Liverpool Echo

Andhra Pradesh: Extend help in protecting child rights, SCPCR chief urges police

Setting up of anti-human trafficking units in districts proposed to DGP

The Hindu

Sudanese trafficking victims must stay in detention, judge rules

Three men, who were tortured and had been at risk of being put on UK flight to Rwanda, say being locked up is worsening trauma

The Guardian - UK

A bill to repeal California's anti-loitering law divided sex workers, advocates. It's now up to Newsom

A controversial bill to repeal a provision of California law that prohibits loitering with the intent to sell sex is on its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, nine months after it passed the Legislature and deeply divided Democrats, sex workers and trafficking survivors along the way.

Los Angeles Times

Shaping up for the top job

Deputy national police chief Pol Gen Roy Ingkapairote is among candidates tipped for the top job at the Royal Thai Police (RTP), having already been placed in charge of tackling key issues including human trafficking, the illegal drug trade and crimes related to the environment.

Bangkok Post

Uproot graft to clip trafficking

The news about 59 Rohingya "abandoned" near southernmost Satun province early this month reminds us that fighting the heinous crime of human trafficking will be a hard-won battle.

Bangkok Post

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The Independent UK

DeSantis wants panel to probe trafficking, sanctuary cities

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has asked that a statewide grand jury be set up to examine networks that illegally smuggle people into the state

360info

Grim options, grim choices: trafficked girls in India

Poverty and abuse often mean Indian girls and women see human traffickers as their ticket to a better life – and this only grew worse during the pandemic.

360info

For migrant sex workers, choice matters

Nepal’s approach to protecting migrant workers lacks the nuance needed to seriously address abuse.

Tribune News Service

Inmate planned to strangle Ghislaine Maxwell in her sleep at Brooklyn jail, lawyer says

NEW YORK — One of Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow detainees at the Brooklyn federal lockup plotted to murder her, a defense lawyer said in a court filing Wednesday aimed at lightening Maxwell’s sentence on sex trafficking charges for procuring young women for Jeffrey Epstein.

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The Guardian - US

Ghislaine Maxwell asks court for sex trafficking sentence of ‘well below’ 20 years

The disgraced British socialite’s lawyers argued that she was threatened in jail and cannot be made proxy for Jeffrey Epstein

Chicago Sun-Times

Hidu, the electronic-sniffing dog, helps fight kiddie porn in pedophilia case in Mexico City

Soon after graduating from training in Indianapolis, the black Lab was lent by a U.S. anti-sex-trafficking group to help Mexican prosecutors. It paid off.

Daily Mirror

Asylum seekers facing deportation to Rwanda include 'torture victims' with 'severe PTSD'

Of the seven asylum seekers removed from a plane set to depart to Rwanda last night, five are trafficking and torture victims while one had "quite severe PTSD" says the founder of Care4Calais

Miami Herald

Reputed Mexican cartel boss extradited in Miami-Dade’s biggest meth-smuggling case

The reputed leader of a Mexican drug cartel appeared in Miami federal court Monday after his extradition from Guatemala on narco-trafficking charges accusing him of directing the largest shipment of methamphetamine to Miami-Dade in the county’s history.

Liverpool Echo

'Puzzling' arrests as Liverpool suspects turn up in Italian and Albanian mafia turf

The men are suspected of involvement in the highest echelons of organised crime in Europe

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers are being rushed towards flights to Rwanda, without proper access to justice

Survivors of torture and trafficking must be able to present their case in a fair and lawful way. That simply isn’t happening, says Kerry Smith, CEO of Asylum Aid

The Independent UK

‘Everywhere. Everything. Everyone’: Drugs are back in the EU

The European Union's drug agency says trafficking and drug use across the bloc are returning to pre-pandemic levels

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