Sponsors of housemaids can be charged with human trafficking
Sponsors of housemaids who leave them to carry out illegal jobs will be charged with human trafficking and face 10 years in jail or more, said Brigadier Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation at Dubai Police.
Earlier, sponsors who released their housemaids for a fee to carry out jobs illegally were charged with selling visit/residence visas. However, they’ll now be charged with human trafficking, said Al Mazina.
The announcement comes in the backdrop of the Dubai Court sentencing two Asian men to 10 years in jail for forcing two women on housemaid visas into flesh trade.
The two accused, a 34-year-old Indian, N., and his 36-year-old Bangladeshi friend, S.V., were planning to sell the victims, an Indonesian woman (29), and a Bangladeshi woman (23), to an unidentified person for Dh 9,000.
The two accused had forced the victims into flesh trade after they fled their sponsors. They were locked up in a room in Al Hamriya and were assaulted by the accused when they refused to entertain clients.
In June last year, Dubai Police sent a police decoy to ‘buy’ the girls and caught the two men red-handed. Source
Earlier, sponsors who released their housemaids for a fee to carry out jobs illegally were charged with selling visit/residence visas. However, they’ll now be charged with human trafficking, said Al Mazina.
The announcement comes in the backdrop of the Dubai Court sentencing two Asian men to 10 years in jail for forcing two women on housemaid visas into flesh trade.
The two accused, a 34-year-old Indian, N., and his 36-year-old Bangladeshi friend, S.V., were planning to sell the victims, an Indonesian woman (29), and a Bangladeshi woman (23), to an unidentified person for Dh 9,000.
The two accused had forced the victims into flesh trade after they fled their sponsors. They were locked up in a room in Al Hamriya and were assaulted by the accused when they refused to entertain clients.
In June last year, Dubai Police sent a police decoy to ‘buy’ the girls and caught the two men red-handed. Source
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