Three men charged with human trafficking

Marie Nammour / 15 April 2013

Three men have been charged with human trafficking and forcing a compatriot woman into prostitution after luring her to travel to the UAE for a job.
The three men, all Bangladeshis and unemployed, are accused with others at large, of deceiving the victim to leave her home country and getting a job in Dubai. However, they coerced her to have sex with men for money.
The three, all aged 33, did not enter a plea in the Court of First Instance. The woman, a 32-year-old maid, said she paid money in her country to a man to issue her a visa and a ticket to travel to the UAE where she was supposed to work as a housemaid for an Emirati family.
On December 14 last year, she was picked up from the Dubai International Airport by the two accused, both at large. She was later handed over to two of the accused on trial, who took her to a flat in Naif area where they sexually assaulted her.
She said she saw other men and women kissing and hugging in the flat. She was locked up in the guarded flat and was told by the women there that she would work in prostitution. She cried as she did not want to work as a prostitute and begged to be left to return to Bangladesh.
One of the accused fooled her saying he would take her to the family for which she would work as a maid, but he took her to another flat where he sexually assaulted her again. When he took her down the building to hail a cab, she shouted for help and a compatriot passerby called the police.
A policeman recounted in the investigation that a runaway accused in the case approached him while working in a construction site near his house.
The accused offered ‘his relative’, the complainant, to work as a housemaid for his family. The policeman’s relative issued a visa for the maid and finalised the procedures of her arrival.
However, when she came to the airport the accused took the maid and left. They evaded him ever since.
He and the woman’s brother filed a police complaint.
The woman’s brother testified that he got a call from her telling him that she was imprisoned by men who were asking for Dh5,000 to let her go.
The police arrested the defendants and freed the woman 
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