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NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat.

Police found 43 migrants hidden in a van just days after authorities found the bodies of 18 migrants concealed in a lumber truck.

A youth pastor and a foster parent in Florida are accused of human trafficking and soliciting minors for sexual activity on social media, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) announced on Friday.

Ex-NFL player Eric Johnson and eight others have been arrested and charged with human trafficking of four women and one teenager in Georgia.

73 people are missing and presumed dead after people smugglers put them on an inflatable boat that sank off the coast of Libya. 

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Republican Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) have introduced a measure to stop drug and human traffickers from benefiting from U.S. tax dollars, even after they are charged with a crime.

The torso of a Chinese woman was found in an apartment complex in Antwerp, Belgium, with investigators believing she may have been linked to a prostitution network.

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia — Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan told members of Congress the Biden administration’s border policies allow the trafficking of children to pedophiles.

Gangs smuggling boat migrants across the English Channel may be linked to a Taliban military formation and pose a serious national security risk, according to Nigel Farage. 

The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.

A 15-year-old from Bangladesh who accidentally became locked inside a shipping container while playing hide-and-seek ended up far from home.

Deaths of migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route to Greece surged in 2022 according to the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR. 

The trial for 24 NGO workers in Greece began this week as they face allegations of aiding human trafficking and people smuggling that took place between 2016 and 2018.

Over half of boat migrants referred to the programme for victims of modern slavery — a potential “loophole” to avoid deportation — hail from Albania, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed.

A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

In what is being touted as a historic case, a Swedish court has convicted a female Islamic State member for human trafficking and facilitating the rape of children in Iraq and Syria.

During a recent news conference, in defending the potential elimination of Title 42, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted the border is not “open” and that spreading misinformation about the border could aid smugglers who ferry migrants into the U.S. 

LESBOS, Greece (AP) – A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people-smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted.

A renowned charitable organization called the Ethiopian World Federation (EWF) is asking the government of Malawi to investigate another charity, Raising Malawi, for human trafficking, sexual exploitation, fraud, and exposing children to “homosexual and transgender” propaganda. Raising Malawi was founded by 80s pop star Madonna Louise Ciccone, better known as simply Madonna.

Even before counting Ukrainian refugees, Europe saw migrant arrivals at levels not seen since the 2015-16 crisis this year.

Internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother have been reportedly remanded in custody for 30 days by a court in Bucharest on Friday.

Helsinki police have arrested a foreign national operating a beauty company who is accused of engaging in human trafficking.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have reportedly been arrested in Romania in connection to a probe into human trafficking and rape.

International sex trafficker Jagpal Singh starred in a BBC reality show in which “real people” were invited to give “real opinions” on the news of the day.

An NGO has claimed that since 2018, an average of six migrants have died trying to reach Spain per day, killed by people smugglers. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is ending a policy that allowed illegal immigrants to use the platform to seek people smugglers to ferry them across the U.S. border, admitting that much of the activity is tantamount to “human exploitation” and “overlaps” with human trafficking.

At least three migrants are thought to have been killed after a small boat capsized while trying to cross the English Channel.

Border police dismantled a major trafficking network in the southern city of Perpignan, accused of smuggling over 200 migrants into France. 

President Joe Biden’s so-called “sanctuary country” orders, which prevent the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency from arresting and deporting most illegal aliens, helped free an illegal alien convict who was later arrested for human trafficking, Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone details.

Greek authorities have arrested seven Egyptian nationals accused of people-smuggling after a boat with nearly 500 migrants aboard was brought to the island of Crete this week.

A people smuggler allegedly bragged to an undercover journalist that he is in contact with migrant taxi NGOs operating in the Mediterranean.

A Calais fisherman claims to have witnessed people smugglers pushing migrants into the waters of the English Channel.

Two people smugglers were arrested in Hungary on Monday after they shot at police with 21 asylum seekers crammed into their vehicle.

Greece’s coast guard says dozens of migrants have been rescued from a sailboat that issued a distress call after it began taking on water.

The boat migrant crisis in the English Channel has escalated to the point that up to two per cent of “the entire adult male population of Albania” have now landed in Britain, according to the top border official for crossings. 

The figures underline the ruthlessness of smugglers leading migrants to their deaths while making a fat profit out of human suffering.