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Aid workers ‘tortured their HIV+ foster son, 10, by keeping him naked and feeding him only cold food’ American’s Nicholas Spencer and his wife Mackenzie Leigh Mathias Spencer are accused of torturing their foster child in Uganda The couple was hit with a new trafficking charge that carries the death penalty US Embassy in Kampala said it…
Shamima Begum, a Britain-born individual who had made her way to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) when she was 15 in 2015, is currently fighting a legal case in the United Kingdom to challenge the removal of her British citizenship in 2019. Shamima and two of her friends, Amira Abase and Khadiza Sultana…
The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Malawi, with Committee Experts commending efforts to combat human trafficking, and raising questions about access to lawyers and the definition of torture. Anna Racu, Committee Vice Chairperson and Co-Rapporteur for Malawi, said that it was positive that Malawi had adopted the Trafficking…
Warning: This story contains graphic details of a horrific crime. A California man who allegedly admitted to deliberately burning two young children alive told investigators that he did so in order to expose a celebrity human trafficking and cloning ring, authorities said. Filimon Hurtado, 29, of Fresno, also said that he did not regret the…
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Fresno man who set fire to his family’s home and killed two young children told investigators he had no regrets and did it to expose a celebrity human trafficking ring. Defense attorneys are setting up an insanity defense for the defendant, who could potentially face the death penalty. Calyx and…
Note: A complete summary of today’s Third Committee meetings will be available on Tuesday, 4 October. Briefing DELPHINE SCHANTZ, of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), expressed her agency’s support for Member States in their fight against drugs, corruption, terrorism and organized crime, including crimes that affect the environment, and cybercrime. Championing…
Security chief says existing laws are sufficient, but experts call for ‘bespoke’ trafficking legislation Authorities received 41 requests for help since January, set up task force only early this month Hong Kong lacks tough laws and an effective network with countries in the region to combat human trafficking scams, according to legal experts and analysts….
Between March 2005 and September 2006 Annie Yang was tortured for up to 20 hours a day in a labour camp outside Beijing for her devotion to Falun Gong spiritualism. The abuse was relentless. But every few weeks something strange would happen. She and her fellow captives would be herded onto a prison bus with…
A 10-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Somorie Moses, also known as “Somorie Barfield,” “Sugar Bear,” “Bear” and “Daddy,” with the 2017 murder of one woman, Leondra Foster, and with sex trafficking eight women. This indictment is believed to be the first use of the federal statute criminalizing murder in…
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