Police arrest 80 year old woman

She had barely entered puberty when she was raped by a much older Chinese man who purchased her from a Vietnamese trafficker. And N is one of the lucky ones. She is one of two Vietnamese women freed from captivity in China last month. The two women are among many who are tricked, sold and trapped as "wives" to strangers in China every year. Born in 2003, N is a native of Bac Lieu Province in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. N’s father abandoned her and her mother when she was a small child. Her mother suffered and became mentally unstable. Stuck in such a situation exacerbated by poverty, N soon dropped out of school. When she was 11, a woman in her neighborhood suggested that she goes to work in China and earn money to help herself and her mother. N agreed without a second thought. In a familiar, tragic story, she was trafficked to China and sold to a much older Chinese man. She kept trying to escape, and once, when she succeeded, she fell into the arms of another trafficking ring … [Read more...] about How two Vietnamese women trafficked to China returned home

By AFP  &nbspApril 26, 2019 | 08:06 am GMT+7 Cambodia has taken a hard line on drugs in recent years as smugglers use it to transfer drugs, particularly heroin and methamphetamine. Photo by AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy A Vietnamese Australian woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Cambodian court on Thursday, for attempting to smuggle almost two kilograms of heroin out of Phnom Penh. Ve Thi Tran was arrested at Phnom Penh airport last January by immigration police after they received a tip from the Australian Federal Police. The 38-year-old was about to board a flight to Hong Kong, bound for Australia as her final destination. The municipal court found her guilty of drug trafficking after she had been held in Phnom Penh's notorious Prey Sar prison for more than a year. "The court has decided to sentence Ve Thi Tran to 30 years in jail and fines her 80 million riel ($19,700)," said Judge Khuon Sona. The Vietnamese-born Australian admitted to the court on April 9 she … [Read more...] about Cambodia sentences Vietnamese Australian to 30 years for drug trafficking

The death of 19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi last week sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with the prime minister promising to prosecute all those involved. Rafi was lured to the rooftop of the Islamic seminary she attended where her attackers asked her to withdraw the sexual harassment complaint she had filed with police. When she refused, she was doused in kerosene and set on fire. Police said Friday that one of the 17 people arrested in connection with her death had accused the school's principal of ordering the attack. The teacher "told them to put pressure on Rafi to withdraw the case or kill her if she refused", senior police superintendent Mohammad Iqbal, who is leading the investigation, told AFP. Rafi had gone to police in late March to report the sexual harassment, and a leaked video shows the local police station chief registering her complaint but dismissing it as "not a big deal". Iqbal said at least five of those under arrest, including three of Rafi's … [Read more...] about Bangladesh girl burned to death on teacher’s order: police