The Dubai Public Prosecution referred two Asian men and women to court on charges of human trafficking to force a minor (under the age of 18) into prostitution. The first accused was charged with the crime of raping the minor. While the second defendant was charged with the exploitation of another woman, found by Dubai police at the same place where the first victim was detained.
The victim said she had decided to travel abroad because of her family's difficult circumstances, explaining that she had met a woman who had been living in the UAE for 10 years and had promised to work as a maid in a house and had paid the visa and travel ticket. The amount deducted from her salary later, pointing to the manipulation of her age in the passport, so you can enter the UAE.
She added that the first defendant met her at the airport and took her to an apartment in the Naif area. She took her passport and noticed that there were women in the same apartment who came out and returned to her in a suspicious manner before the defendants subsequently told her that she would be a prostitute.
She refused to practice prostitution for 10 days and then gave up after assaulting her and beating her with money. She had sex with her and forced her to do the same with others.
She said the defendant was holding her in the apartment all the time, and she was asking for help from the customers, but no one saved her. As requested by the accused woman, but in turn refused her assistance.
A Dubai police witness said information on the detention and forced prostitution of a minor was suspected of being a victim of trafficking in human beings. A warrant was obtained from the Public Prosecution and the apartment was raided to free the victim and arrest the perpetrators. Another woman was found forced by the second accused and his partner to work in prostitution and referred to the Dubai Foundation for the Care of Women and Children to provide the necessary assistance.