Human trafficking

Couple arrested for human trafficking after keeping foreign worker under 'slavery conditions'

The affair had been under investigation since December 2025, when police received a report from the foreign worker who claimed he had been employed by the couple for four years.

 Illustrative image of human trafficking.
Migrants from Bangladesh stand in the woods near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 30, 2020. Hundreds of migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa set up makeshift camps in Bosnian woods near the border with Croatia, attempting to cross into the European Union where they h

Croatian police find bodies of four migrants near Slovene border, aid 15 others

The logo for OnlyFans is seen on a device; illustrative, August 19, 2021.

State attorney rejects request by Israeli NGOs to take steps against OnlyFans

 U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.

Epstein used London flats to house and abuse trafficked women, BBC reports


Israel warns of human trafficking risk of surrogate mothers abroad

These risks include “indications of a violation of the basic rights of the surrogate women and their dignity, while objectifying them and limiting their freedom.”

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Letters to the Editor, June 21, 2023: Fulminating hatred

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Andrew Tate to stand trial in Romania for human trafficking, sex crimes

The Tate brothers, former kickboxers who have US and British nationality with millions of online followers, are the highest-profile suspects to be sent to trial in Romania for human trafficking.

 Andrew Tate is surrounded by media as he leaves the building that houses the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) in Bucharest, Romania, April 10, 2023/

Hungary frees 777 Ukrainians, others convicted of human trafficking

"Incarcerating foreign nationals costs Hungarian prisons billions of forints each year," the BvOP press office said in its emailed reply.

 Hungary's President Katalin Novak, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis visit the Hungarian-Serbian border barrier near Kelebia, Hungary, December 15, 2022.

Iranian leader of women trafficking network executed by Islamic Republic

Shahrouz Sokhnori was sentenced to death and found guilty of corruption for trafficking women across the Middle East and Asia.

 Iran's riot police forces stand on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023

Did a Chinese man kidnap his granddaughter to pay his gambling debt? - report

The grandfather supposedly blamed his daughter, the granddaughter's mother, for the entire incident. When it happened is unclear, but it reflects the issue of child trafficking.

 An illustrative photo of a man and granddaughter.

Modern slavery in Israel: The women victims of human trafficking

The US State Department TIP report states that Israel does not meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so

 Women with price tags on their hands are displayed in the window of a store called Woman To Go in a shopping mall in Tel Aviv to raise awareness about and protest against the trafficking of women.

Stop human traffickers, Pope Francis says after Italy's migrant shipwreck

Local authorities said 70 bodies had so far been recovered following the incident.

 POPE FRANCIS met with Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb at Sakhir Palace, south of Manama, Bahrain, in November.

American patron of Israeli archaeology becomes focus of New York’s antiquities trafficking unit

Shelby White has already relinquished at least two dozen items worth at least $20 million.

 “Shelby White & Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center”

Ex-kickboxer Andrew Tate says Romanian prosecutors have no evidence against him

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate believes the Romanian government has no grounds to hold him.

 Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are escorted by police officers outside the headquarters of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania, January 10, 2023.