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25 June 2008, Source: B92, FoNet, Beta Strasbourg, Priština – Swiss representative in Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Dick Marty was appointed as rapporteur on illicit organs-trafficking in Kosovo. To remind you, such claims were stated in the book wrote by former prosecutor in Haag Tribunal, Carla Del Ponte. Marty said that trafficking in […]

24.06.2008, Source: FoNet, Tanjug Strasbourg – Committee for human rights and legal affairs of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe should discuss illicit organ-trafficking in Kosovo on tomorrow’s session. Chief of Serbian delegation in this institution, Miloš Aligrudić, said that this is “the most important topic” for Serbia. “It is supposed that victims of trafficking

25.06.2008, Source: Blic| French and Bulgarian police uncovered a network of pimps who were sending Bulgarians to France to work as prostitutes, stated Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Ministry said that 21 person was arrested in those two countries. 18 of them were arrested in France and three in Bulgaria, in Black Sea town Varna.

25.06.2008, Source: Blic Law enforcement of Montenegro and Serbia for fight against organized crime broke international human trafficking chain of girls from Ukraine transferred to Kosovo for sexual exploitation, said police of Montenegro. Mutual police action, called “Balkan route” lasted for several months. Two Ukrainian citizens came yesterday to Montenegro on the flight Kiev –

“Astra” presented provocative campaign against human trafficking 06.06.2008, Source: Glas javnosti BELGRADE – Non-governmental organization ASTRA presented their anti-trafficking campaign “Naked Facts”, in which seven naked men show point out to the existing problem of slavery. In two television spots and on billboards, facts about trafficking are stated by journalists Jugoslav Ćosić, Dejan Anastasijević and

96 victim of human trafficking identified last year 02.06.2008, Source: Blic BELGRADE – Among human trafficking victims in Serbia during last year, men were more numerous than women. This shows data from Ministry of interior of Serbia, and the police discovered several crime groups recruiting people, mostly men, for labor exploitation. One criminal group recruited

KRAGUJEVAC – G. Đ. (38) from Kragujevac was arrested on Tuesday for collecting and distributing pornographic material over Internet, in which occur minor persons. The accused, father of two minor girls, got 48-hours detention, after which he will be brought to judge in Municipal court. According to Blic source, G. Đ. received hundreds of videos

30. jun 2008. | Source: B92.net Banjaluka, Sarajevo – BIH Prosecutor’s Office indicted Gafur Murseli, Abid Guta and Habib Burić for human trafficking. Murseli is a citizen of Serbia, and Guta and Burić are citizens of BiH. It was stated in the indictment that three of them are members of international organized group, and that

Source: Blic online | 27.06.2008 One wealthy woman from New York was sentenced to an 11-years prison term for holding two Indonesian women in her house as slaves and abused them physically and psychically in the cruelest ways, reports BBC. Varsha Mahender Sabhnani (46) and her husband Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani (51), who will be sentenced

Source: Blic| 26.06.2008 BUDVA – Montenegrin police discovered yesterday a family from Aleksinac who brought their children and children of their relatives to Budva for begging. Truck, in which 24 persons were found, 19 of whom children age 2 to 17, was stopped at Adriatic Highway, near Vidikovac, Budva. Driver and assistant driver Slaviša S.