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2 get life term for trafficking 2 newborn babies
A Dhaka tribunal sentences two people including a woman to life term imprisonment in a case filed for trafficking two newborn babies in Dhaka in 2006.
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30 Rohingyas rescued from 'traffickers'
Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, including women and children, from Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia.
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23 human trafficking ‘agents’ nabbed by Thai police
The Thai police arrests 23 human-trafficking “agents” as part of a major operation to prevent the country's south from becoming a transit destination for migrants trying to cross illegally into Malaysia.
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Migration for Bangladeshis: Still fraught with trafficking risks
The number of Bangladeshis working abroad is increasing every year but their safe migration still remains a big challenge for the government, posing a threat to the country's top remittance-earning sector.
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Human trafficking racket busted
Saddam went to Libya around a year back spending Tk 4 lakh. He nurtured dreams of a financially solvent future and was determined to work hard for it, even if it meant being continents away from home.
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Fighting human trafficking
Despite the continuous hue and cry about human trafficking (in the media), very little has actually been done to fight the menace...
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7 ‘human traffickers’ held in Dhaka
Law enforcers detain seven people in and around Dhaka in connection with collecting money as ransom from migrant workers after sending them to Sudan and Libya.
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Two ‘human traffickers’ held in Teknaf
Police today has claimed arrest of two human traffickers from Teknaf upazilla of Cox’s Bazar.
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11 ‘traffickers’ held, 2 female victims rescued
Rapid Action Battalion members arrest 11 alleged human traffickers in Paltan area of Dhaka and rescue two female trafficking victims.
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8 ‘human traffickers’ held in Dhaka
Rab arrests eight alleged members of an international human trafficking gang in Dhaka last night and recovers a large number of fake visas and visa-making equipment from their possessions.
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2 human traffickers held in Cox’s Bazar
Police, in a drive, arrested two human traffickers in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
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Top human traffickers held in Cox’s Bazar
Law enforcers arrest wo alleged top human traffickers in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
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Human trafficker held in Narsingdi
Police in Narsingdi arrest a man on charge of trafficking dozens of youths to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.
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Malaysia human trafficking camp revisited (video)
Christine Cheah of Crime Watch Raw treks into a bigger, abandons trafficking camp in Wang Kelian, Kedah, which may indicate the involvement of syndicates.
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7 traffickers held in Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka
Seven people are detained in Cox’s Bazar and Dhaka for their alleged involvement in human trafficking.
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Inside Thailand's trafficking crackdown
Sheltering in the backroom of a provincial Thai police station is a 35-year-old street vendor who triggered a human trafficking investigation that has reverberated across Southeast Asia.
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95 trafficking victims return from KL
Ninety five more Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who were rescued by the Malaysian authorities from the Andaman Sea last May, return home from Kuala Lumpur.
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To combat human trafficking
A series of news on human trafficking across the sea route of Cox's Bazar have been getting highlighted in national and international media in recent days.
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18 trafficking victims return from Indonesia
Eighteen Bangladeshi fortune seekers rescued by Indonesia authorities from the Andaman Sea around three months back, returns to Dhaka from Jakarta.
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Rape–another crime of human traffickers at sea
An investigative report by this paper has unraveled the horrifying sexual abuse of Rohingya women while they make their perilous trips at sea.
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5 ‘listed’ traffickers held in Cox’s Bazar
Police detain five suspected human traffickers during crackdowns at different places in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
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Unregistered Rohingya among 150 repatriated Bangladeshis
Detectives have identified an unregistered Rohingya among the 150 Bangladeshis, who were repatriated from Myanmar on Monday after months of ordeal.
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3 ‘traffickers’ held, 2 victims rescued in Dhaka
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detain three alleged human traffickers and rescue two victims in separate places in the capital.
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Bangladesh suggests 'external factors' for trafficking, migration
Bangladesh insists that poverty is not necessarily the main driver pushing her people into the hands of traffickers.
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TORTURED, KILLED AND ABANDONED
On May 1, 2015, a shallow mass grave was discovered by some villagers collecting mushrooms deep inside a jungle of Thailand's Songkhla province.
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Only 1 body per grave found at trafficking camps: Malaysia
The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, says Malaysia's deputy home minister.
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Should fortune-seekers be punished?
In 2012 the Parliament criminalised human trafficking by enacting the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act.
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An insensitive remark
WE find the prime minister's remarks on taking steps against illegal migrants along with human traffickers inhumane and insensitive.
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Diplomats to determine ‘Bangladeshis’ in Malaysia mass graves
Bangladesh High Commission will be in touch with Kuala Lumpur to determine whether the mass graves, believed to contain bodies of hundreds of migrants in Malaysia, are of Bangladesh citizens.
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Fake government officials being trafficked abroad
AMIDST the grisly reports of human trafficking through the seas comes another shocker : Bangladeshis, posing as government officials, entering foreign countries with fake passports.