With the ongoing trafficking of women and children in China becoming a social problem, top prosecutors have revealed that they have charged nearly 1,500 people for trafficking-related crimes last year. Did.
In January, a video of a woman victim of trafficking being chained and trapped in a rural village in eastern Jiangsu Province spread on the Internet in January, arresting her husband and leaving the problem unattended. Local officials were punished for being.
In China, the trafficking of women and children, which is still rampant in rural areas, has become a social problem in the wake of this incident.
At the National People's Congress held in Beijing on the 8th, the head of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, Zhang Army Prosecutor, reported on crimes related to human trafficking.
According to it, a total of 1463 people were charged with kidnapping and buying and selling women and children last year.
The Chinese government also emphasized in the NPC's government activity report that "criminal acts such as kidnapping and trafficking must be cracked down and the legitimate rights of women and children must be protected."
It seems that the Chinese government is still aiming to take a strict stance on the problem as the ripples spread in the country over the actual situation of human trafficking that is rampant.