50% rise in suspected human trafficking victims in Finland – most are related to forced labour and forced marriages ~life Article 460 words 6 votes
Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK. When the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim ~life Article 4971 words, published Jul 26 2019 10 votes
Jeffrey Epstein on suicide watch after accused sex trafficker is found injured in New York jail ~news usa Article 197 words 17 votes
Jeffrey Epstein arrested for sex trafficking of minors, will appear in New York court on Monday ~news crime usa.ny Article 2370 words 20 votes
The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom ~news colombia crime.organized Article 1363 words 5 votes
An ACLU lawsuit says the Coast Guard accused innocent men of drug smuggling, chained them to decks, and sailed with them straight into a hurricane ~misc politics Article 1909 words 13 votes
Blow up: How half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island ~life Article 3669 words 10 votes
The Mastermind - He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized US government asset ~life Link 3 votes
China executes 'godfather of crystal meth' Cai Dongjia whose village supplied one third of the country's methamphetamine ~news china.guangdong crime.organized Article 237 words 9 votes
The Feds cracked El Chapo's encrypted comms network by flipping his system admin ~tech Article 734 words 10 votes
The egg thief - For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum has been snatching unhatched raptors and selling them, investigators believe, to wealthy Middle Eastern falconers ~life Article 7049 words 8 votes
Facebook criticized for allowing South Sudanese user to auction off 16-year-old bride ~tech social media facebook Article 592 words 11 votes
Around 100 migrant caravan members have been kidnapped by human traffickers, Mexican officials warn ~news mexico crime.organized Article 436 words 4 votes
Unprotected: "An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped." ~life Article published Oct 11 2018 9 votes
The cartel next door: How prosecutors tied a brazen murder in an upscale Dallas suburb to one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations ~life Article 8102 words, published Sep 21 2018 13 votes
Homicides in Guatemala. This project explores the challenges and lessons of disaggregating gang-related and drug trafficking-related murders ~science sociology Link 3 votes
Britain accused of failing to grasp scale, cost of modern slavery ~news united kingdom crime politics Article 560 words 7 votes
Australian woman sentenced to death for drug offences in Malaysia ~news australia crime malaysia Article 335 words 6 votes