human traffickers

2 get life term for trafficking 2 newborn babies

A Dhaka tribunal sentences two people including a woman to life term imprisonment in a case filed for trafficking two newborn babies in Dhaka in 2006.
11 June 2019, 14:09 PM

30 Rohingyas rescued from 'traffickers'

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, including women and children, from Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia.
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

23 human trafficking ‘agents’ nabbed by Thai police

The Thai police arrests 23 human-trafficking “agents” as part of a major operation to prevent the country's south from becoming a transit destination for migrants trying to cross illegally into Malaysia.
16 July 2018, 12:20 PM

Migration for Bangladeshis: Still fraught with trafficking risks

The number of Bangladeshis working abroad is increasing every year but their safe migration still remains a big challenge for the government, posing a threat to the country's top remittance-earning sector.
17 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Human trafficking racket busted

Saddam went to Libya around a year back spending Tk 4 lakh. He nurtured dreams of a financially solvent future and was determined to work hard for it, even if it meant being continents away from home.
7 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Fighting human trafficking

Despite the continuous hue and cry about human trafficking (in the media), very little has actually been done to fight the menace...
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM

7 ‘human traffickers’ held in Dhaka

Law enforcers detain seven people in and around Dhaka in connection with collecting money as ransom from migrant workers after sending them to Sudan and Libya.
19 March 2016, 05:01 AM

Two ‘human traffickers’ held in Teknaf

Police today has claimed arrest of two human traffickers from Teknaf upazilla of Cox’s Bazar.
20 January 2016, 09:42 AM

11 ‘traffickers’ held in Dhaka, 2 female victims rescued

Rapid Action Battalion members arrest 11 alleged human traffickers in Paltan area of Dhaka and rescue two female trafficking victims.
29 December 2015, 12:52 PM

8 ‘human traffickers’ held in Dhaka

Rab arrests eight alleged members of an international human trafficking gang in Dhaka last night and recovers a large number of fake visas and visa-making equipment from their possessions.
5 October 2015, 04:54 AM

2 human traffickers held in Cox’s Bazar

Police, in a drive, arrested two human traffickers in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
12 September 2015, 05:56 AM

Top human traffickers held in Cox’s Bazar

Law enforcers arrest wo alleged top human traffickers in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
3 September 2015, 06:32 AM

Human trafficker held in Narsingdi

Police in Narsingdi arrest a man on charge of trafficking dozens of youths to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.
20 August 2015, 14:21 PM

Malaysia human trafficking camp revisited (video)

Christine Cheah of Crime Watch Raw treks into a bigger, abandons trafficking camp in Wang Kelian, Kedah, which may indicate the involvement of syndicates.
14 August 2015, 04:42 AM

7 traffickers held in Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka

Seven people are detained in Cox’s Bazar and Dhaka for their alleged involvement in human trafficking.
28 July 2015, 15:48 PM

Inside Thailand's trafficking crackdown

Sheltering in the backroom of a provincial Thai police station is a 35-year-old street vendor who triggered a human trafficking investigation that has reverberated across Southeast Asia.
9 July 2015, 12:47 PM

95 more trafficking victims back home from Malaysia

Ninety five more Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who were rescued by the Malaysian authorities from the Andaman Sea last May, return home from Kuala Lumpur.
9 July 2015, 12:29 PM

To combat human trafficking

A series of news on human trafficking across the sea route of Cox's Bazar have been getting highlighted in national and international media in recent days.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM

18 trafficking victims return from Indonesia

Eighteen Bangladeshi fortune seekers rescued by Indonesia authorities from the Andaman Sea around three months back, returns to Dhaka from Jakarta.
12 June 2015, 15:51 PM

Rape–another crime of human traffickers at sea

An investigative report by this paper has unraveled the horrifying sexual abuse of Rohingya women while they make their perilous trips at sea.
11 June 2015, 18:00 PM