10 January 2009 Kuching Two men, aged 27 and 28 years old, were arrested on Thursday at 3:30pm for allegedly forcing 8 foreign women into prostitution. They were picked up at a double-storey terrace house in Poh Kwong Park. The women, aged between 16 and 25 years old, were locked up in a room of [...]
22 December 2008 Kuala Lumpur 32-year-old Punitha Raja has become the first person to be convicted in Malaysia under Section 13 of the Anti-Trafficking In Persons Act 2007 for forcing a 33-year-old woman into prostitution. The Indian national pleaded guilty to committing the offence at her rented residence along Jalan Kolam Air 5, Sentul, on [...]
3 December 2008 Kuala Lumpur Two women from China were offered jobs at a factory here but were forced into prostitution by an agent. 19-year-old Feng Yu and 21-year-old Yang Zhen were hoping for higher pay when they were persuaded by a friend to find work in Malaysia. The agent, a local man only known [...]
27 March 2008 Putrajaya 16 foreign women have been rescued by the Immigration Department from the clutches of a human trafficking syndicate in two operations in Seremban and Johor Baru. Three members of the syndicate in their 30s have been arrested and remanded for between 4 and 14 days under the Anti-Trafficking In Persons Act [...]
17 March 2008 Pontian Three Indonesian prostitutes and seven foreign clients were found at a house in Pekan Nenas when a team of police raided the residence on Sunday at 8:30pm. Police believe a syndicate was behind the operations, which had just started a few weeks ago and was serving foreign factory workers. The women [...]
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