Thirty nine criminal facts were reported in connection with human trafficking in the first quarter of the year by Javad Shikhaliyev, head of the Interior Ministry department in charge of stopping human trafficking in the Republic of Azerbaijan. He stated that seventeen victims of human trafficking were recovered and rescued, four criminal groups involved with human trafficking have been taken down, and seven people prosecuted for human trafficking crimes. Of the seventeen victims, thirteen were taken to Turkey, and the other four were taken to Iran. Most of the victims were young unmarried women, and children. All of the victims were given legal, psychological and medical assistance. Ten were given jobs. Shikhaliyev also stated that the human trafficking is involved with prostitution rings, and many of the victims were forced into prostitution and sex trafficking.
It is a good thing that Azerbaijan is recognizing and attacking the problem of human trafficking. As I have said before, it would be easy for these officials to take bribes and not do anything about human trafficking, but they have not. They have recognized and attacked the problem. The only problem is that they are not reporting how many victims of human trafficking are still in captivity and slavery.
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