A distress message was saved via WhatsApp to the police, two Asian girls from a gang of human trafficking consisting of three men and women (from the nationality of an Asian state), who published an advertisement via Facebook to bring in girls to work in the field of massage (massage), where the two girls were lured. And their detainees, and forced them to work with prostitution for a financial compensation, until the victims were able to send a distress message to the police, who attended the place and removed them from the detention, and seized the accused.
The Criminal Court in Ras Al -Khaimah sentenced three of them to five years in prison, and ordered that they be removed from the state after the implementation of the punishment, confiscating the seizures, closing the residence used in the crime, and obliging each of them to fees, and acquitted one of the defendants from the accusations assigned to him.
In the accusation of the Public Prosecution, the four defendants established an organized criminal gang with the intention of committing human trafficking crimes, and obtaining a financial benefit, by attracting, receiving and transferred by fraud and deception inside the state, and took advantage of their weakness for not knowing the state’s circumstances, and recruited them to detention and threaten by force for the purpose of exploitation Sexual.
She added that two of the accused and others unknown, attended the use of coercion and the threat of the victims to commit prostitution, and managed a house to practice their activities and facilitate its practice, as the defendants denied the accusations assigned to them.
The defendant’s lawyer pointed to the innocence of his client, the absence of the crime of human trafficking, the absence of the crime of reservation and the deprivation of the victims of freedom, or their coercion of prostitution, adding that the victims were having their phone and stirring completely freely, and that they opened the door of the residence to the investigating man.
He pointed to the absence of the crime of managing a prostitution and exploitation of the cancellation of the victims, according to the statements of the second accused that he is based on the administration of the housing in the massage work, and received the financial compensation from the customers, and his client had no one in that.
The lawyer of one of the defendants pointed to the invalidity of the record of the inferences of the lack of an Asian translator, and the invalidity of the seizure minutes to implement it before the issuance of the Public Prosecution’s permission, and the contradiction of the victims ’statements and the sit -in of his client with denial and the availability of the kidnapping crime, and asked for the acquittal of his client from what was assigned to him.
Lawyer Abdullah Sarhan stated that his client (one of the accused in the case) has no role in the crime except for the extraction of my visa for the victim, and it is of the nature of his work in a tourism company, indicating that the pillars of the accusation assigned to his client, the absence of criminal intent and the free papers from there are evidence to support The accusation, and the sit -in of its client in denial since the beginning of the investigations.
The ruling was stated, what was settled in the conscience of the court, that the defendants tightened their control over the victims upon their arrival in the state after their deception of work in the massage through a Facebook declaration in their state, and took advantage of their weakness and detention by coercion for a period of three days and forced them to practice prostitution with men without discrimination .
She added that the accused in the case transferred the victim in her car to a house used as a prostitution department, and the second accused threatened them with the practice of prostitution, until the victim managed to send a distress message to the police via (WhatsApp), which in turn came to the place and brought them out of the detention Control the accused.
She added that the report of the e -government authority to examine the phone of one of the defendants is free, which proves the existence of a relationship between him and the accused, or what indicates his participation in the crime, which makes the court question the charges assigned to him, and with him the court requires his innocence, and to punish the other three defendants to five years in prison and keep them away from The state is after carrying out the punishment, confiscating the seizures, and closing the residence used in the crime.
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