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Jail term upheld for woman in trafficking case
By Tarek Zeyad May 23, 2011
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DUBAI: The Appellate Court of Dubai has upheld a verdict of a five-year-jail term and deportation issued previously by the Criminal Court against an African woman known as SAA, 30, on the charge of human trafficking.

The suspect did not attend the session to hear the judgment, but when she heard the first verdict, she reacted strangely.

She crawled towards the judge raising her hands and said “I lost my lifetime” and then cried.

Meanwhile, the court upheld the verdict issued against another African woman identified as ESH, 23, involved in the same case. The court also sentenced her to five years in jail to be flowed by deportation.

The public prosecution cited that the two suspects exploited three girls in prostitution, after they brought them from their countries on the pretext of providing them with jobs in a hotel.

They used coercion and beating to force them into prostitution, the court added.

Interrogation showed that the victims entered the country at different times through the Dubai International Airport, where they were received by a person who works for the suspects.

They were then taken to the house of the second suspect in Al Ref’ah area in Dubai, where she informed them that they would work in prostitution.

They objected and asked the first suspect to send them back to their countries, but she refused and told them they should pay first the cost of bringing them to the country, which she valued it at Dhs60,000.