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Appeals Court Panel Seems Skeptical That FOSTA Doesn't Violate the First Amendment

The 2018 law criminalizes websites that "promote or facilitate" prostitution. Two of three judges on the panel pushed back against government claims that this doesn't criminalize speech.

Reason

Prosecutors seek life term for man who abused college women

Prosecutors are seeking a life prison term for an ex-convict who extorted and forced into labor or prostitution some women he met at his daughter's on-campus housing at Sarah Lawrence College

The Independent UK

Woman accusing 4 ex-cops of aiding sex trafficking testifies

A federal jury has heard testimony from a woman whose civil lawsuit accuses a former police chief in Virginia and three other officers of protecting a sex-trafficking ring they had used as clients

The Independent UK

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Couple enslaved pregnant woman then forced her to give up newborn baby

A court heard that Julia Rafaelova, 51, persuaded the victim to travel to the UK from Slovakia in October 2013, having fallen pregnant during forced prostitution controlled by her

The Independent UK

Jury hears case alleging 4 cops enabled prostitution ring

A woman who says she was lured from Costa Rica into a Virginia-based sex-trafficking ring says that a former police chief and three other officers were clients of the enterprise and allowed it to operate

The Independent UK

Lockdowns, shootings, prostitution. How a school fought a 'crime magnet' motel and won

LOS ANGELES — The September 2021 shooting at the "crime magnet" motel flanked by two schools crystallized the urgent mission at hand for the campus community.

Los Angeles Times

Hyderabad: 14k Rescued In Prostitution-Racket Bust, 17 Accused Arrested

Hyderabad Police have busted a notorious organized gang of prostitution racket and rescued 14,190 women including foreigners from across the country. Read on for details:

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Gardai probe ‘pimp’ suspected of controlling sex workers' earnings in investigation spanning 11 counties

Last Thursday and Friday, gardai carried out intelligence led searches in 11 counties. During the course of the operation, 46 people were identified as having allegedly purchased sexual services from an individual involved in prostitution.

Irish Mirror

Woman groomed and abused in care gets apology after 30 years

Leeds city council letter accepting responsibility believed to be the first of its kind

The Guardian - UK

Rome police hunt for possible serial killer after three women found dead

Bodies of three sex workers found stabbed to death in two apartments in upmarket district of Prati

The Guardian - UK

Former Italian PM Berlusconi acquitted in bribery case

An Italian court on Thursday acquitted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of bribing a witness in a 2013 underage prostitution case, giving a boost to the veteran politician weeks after his return to parliament.

Reuters

Multi-storey ‘erotic centre’ set to replace Amsterdam red light district – if locals can agree where

The city authorities have commissioned a complex with bars, restaurants, theatres and rooms for sex workers – but nobody wants it in their backyard

The Guardian - UK

Human trafficking gang behind Scots prostitution racket jailed for 31 years

The gang of four lured victims from China and Thailand – then seized their passports and forced them to work in brothels.

Daily Record

Sex trafficking gang who forced women to work in Glasgow brothels jailed for 31 years

Four people involved in trafficking vulnerable women into Scotland and forcing them to work in brothels across Glasgow have been jailed for 31 years at the High Court.

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Reason

Woman Reports Rape to Pennsylvania Cops, Winds Up In Prison for Prostitution

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Bangkok Post

Health clinic was front for sex services, police allege

A woman was arrested on charges of operating a health clinic as a front for prostitution at a housing estate in Bangkok’s Bung Kum district on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Health clinic was front for sex services, police allege

A woman was arrested on charges of operating a health clinic as a front for prostitution at a housing estate in Bangkok’s Bung Kum district on Thursday.

The Conversation

Legal sex work in South Africa won’t create new problems, just help solve old ones

South Africa’s post apartheid government has been toying with the idea of decriminalising sex work for almost two decades. But it has hesitated to act with the necessary courage to regulate the industry in a progressive way.

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Reason

Underage Girls Arrested in Florida 'Human Trafficking' Sting

Once again, policies billed as helping people coerced into prostitution wind up harming those that cops say they're trying to help.

Reason

Canadian Sex Workers Fight for Full Decriminalization of Prostitution

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Bangkok Post

Former school director arrested for procuring schoolgirls

Police have arrested a retired school director accused of procuring schoolgirls for a prostitution ring whose customers included local officials and politicians in Kalasin province.

Daily Mirror

Inside city's red light district, where sex sold from 8am and syringes left on ground

Sex work, drug use and anti-social behavior in a Birmingham suburb is leaving business owners and residents exasperated and scared. They are calling for the police and local council to take action

Reason

There's No Way FOSTA Isn't a First Amendment Violation, Says Lawsuit

The case is now on appeal after a lower court said the ban on websites promoting prostitution didn't concern protected speech.

Reason

'I Have My Own Life': The Case for Legalizing Sex Work

It would be far easier to prosecute sex trafficking if voluntary sex work were legal.

The Independent UK

Spanish sex club owners, workers protest prostitution bill

Protesters including brothel owners and sex workers have demonstrated in front of the Spanish Parliament over a bill that would penalize prostitution customers and sex club owners or pimps with sentences up to 4 years in prison

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