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Forced Labor in Helsinki (2024)

A forced labor case from 2024 in Helsinki, Finland. 1 source on file.

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What happened

Nepalese restaurant workers exploited through franchise model. Excessive fees to recruitment agents, wages garnished, threatened with deportation. Accused: Restaurant chain owners using tied labor recruitment.

Response and intervention

Finnish Occupational Safety and Health. Restaurant licenses revoked; owners charged. Finnish Refugee Advice Centre.

Sex Trafficking2008

Helsinki, Finland, 2008

Finland FI

Helsinki's Court of Appeals has convicted two Estonian men of human trafficking. The convicts were found guilty of forcing a developmentally disabled woman to prostitute herself. The court found that the men kept the woman in an apartment in Helsinki and sold her to more than a hundred men over the course of three weeks. The crimes took place in the summer of 2008. Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/teksti/news/2009/12/two_men_convicted_of_human_trafficking_in_helsinki_1325203.html Source: http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Prosecutor+calls+for+prison+sentences+in+human+trafficking+case/1135240997757

2 sourcesArchive 2008–2016