Two Asian human traffickers jailed in Bahrain

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Court of Cassation sentenced two Asians to five years and one-year imprisonment each for forcing a worker to engage in prostitution after luring her through fraud. The court also ordered them to pay the costs of sending the victim, also an Asian, to her home country, and their deportation once they served their sentence.

The victim had entered the Kingdom of Bahrain through a labour office to work as a maid in a sponsor’s home. Looking for a higher salary, she used Facebook to contact a woman of her nationality who lives in the Gulf, who referred her to another woman living in the kingdom.

She was offered a better-paying job, prompting her to abandon her original sponsor’s house. The first defendant took her to the woman’s residence where she stayed for a week. The defendant then claimed to provide her employment and took her to a hotel where he detained her and revealed that she would work as a prostitute.

Despite the victim’s refusal, the defendant forced her to perform prostitution for clients he brought and handing him the money, which amounted to BD20 per session. The defendant relocated her to several hotels, repeating the practice. The second defendant worked in coordination with the first to deliver clients to the hotel.

The victim was unable to leave for fear of the first defendant and his accomplices’ brutality. She was finally able to contact the officials of her labour office who informed the policemen who came to her rescue.