4 get jail terms for human trafficking

Ameer Al Sunn, Staff Reporter

The Fujairah Criminal Court sentenced 4 Asians including a girl in her twenties to 3 years in jail and fined them Dhs5,000 on charges of human trafficking and use of force.

According to the official records, the girl was brought from her home country by one of the other defendants who cheated her by promising her to work as a waitress in a restaurant against Dhs2,000 per month. When the girl came to the UAE, the defendant took her to an apartment in which the other defendants were staying and handed her over to the third defendant for Dhs5,000.

Together with other peers, the girl waited for the job, which the first defendant promised to offer but discovered later that she was living in a brothel. When she refused to comply with the defendant’s orders to be engaged in prostitution for money with men coming to the apartment, the defendant slapped her, assaulted her and threatened to use force if she would not comply.

The apartment was raided by the criminal investigation agents after receiving a tip-off that the apartment was used for prostitution. All the defendants were arrested including the girl and were referred to the Public Prosecution where they were charged with running a brothel.