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Vietnamese Child Trafficking Victims Win Appeal Against Convictions

Categories: Articles:Human Rights | Published: 24/06/2013 | Views: 1096
Three children from Vietnam who were trafficked to the UK and forced to work for criminal gangs have had their criminal convictions quashed. The children were arrested after police raids on cannabis factories and later convicted of drug offences. In an unrelated case, a woman from Uganda had her conviction for carrying false documents overturned. The court ruled the four should not have been prosecuted because they were victims of a "vile trade in people". Lawyers for the four argued they should not have been prosecuted because they were all victims of trafficking.
(BBC News, 21/06/13) 

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