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Sex Trafficking

Qingdao, Shandong, China

Name: Age: 30 Female North Korea refugee Name: Age: 40 Female North Korea refugee Two ethnic Korean Chinese living in the South were also arrested for working with the pair in China. Police also suspect that another North Korean refugee in China and a South Korean who lives overseas acted as accomplices. Police said that over a two-year period the pair acquired 70-80 North Korean women fresh from their impoverished homeland, about half of them from Chinese brokers. They paid the brokers about 3.6 million South Korean won ($3,298) for each woman. The pair allegedly forced the women into prostitution in night-time establishments they operated in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao between 2007 and 2009. Two female refugees from North Korea have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly forcing fellow fugitives into prostitution while they were in China, police said Tuesday.

Location
China · Qingdao, Shandong · 2011 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
Seoul police launched an investigation following complaints from some of the victims who had managed to escape to the South, said Park Chu-Ung, a police officer in charge of the investigation. "Some women were beaten harshly for being unable to attract enough customers or trying to run away," Park told AFP, adding the suspects lured the victims with false promises of sending them to the capitalist South. The charges in the superseding indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant IS presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. "The suspects took advantage of their vulnerable position as women with little money and no local connections," he said. "This is a very rare case of trying to punish North Korean defectors for what they did in China." http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/231641/n-korean-refugees-accused-over-china-sex-trade
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