Dubai, February 03: A male worker and an unemployed woman stood trial in the Court of First Instance on Wednesday on the charges of human trafficking and illegal confinement.
The two, both Bangladeshis, allegedly forced two women into prostitution.
Acording to the prosecution records, the two defendants lured two compatriot women to the UAE with the offer of jobs as maids. Once they arrived here, the defendants seized their passports and visas and held them up in an apartment at Naif in Deira.
They forced them, under assault, beating and confinement, to have sex with men for money. Otherwise, they had to pay Dh20,000 to be allowed to go back to their home country. One of the alleged victims, aged 20, told the prosecutor that she was held up in the defendants’ apartment for three months before she could escape. She had paid Dh5,000 to someone in her country to help her find a job as maid here. She was picked up from the airport by the two defendants and they took her to their apartment.
One week later, the man asked her to have sex with him but she refused saying that she was married. He insisted but she again refused. She was forced later to work as a prostitute as the defendants assaulted her if she resisted.
In August last year, she feigned sickness to the worker saying that she could not work that day. She insisted to be taken to a hospital. She then asked the other victim to go along with her. While walking to the hospital with the worker, they ran away and sought refuge in a shop.
–Agencies–