KHUJAND, July 22, 2014, Asia-Plus — Three women from Khujand, the capital of the northern province of Sughd have been jailed for sexual exploitation.
The Khujand city court sentenced three local women to various jail terms on July 21.
Two of them — N.G. and Sh.M. – were sentenced to 9 and 8 years in prison respectively. The sentence followed their conviction on charges of human trafficking (Article 130 (2) of Tajikistan’s Penal Code).
The third woman, charged with not reporting crime to police (Article 347 (2) of Tajikistan’s Penal Code), was sentenced to one year in prison.
“They were attempting to traffic two local young women to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). They promised the women jobs with good salary, but the women they recruited were actually intended for UAE brothels,” Ms. Nargis Nabizoda, a judge at the Khujand city court, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
They were reportedly detained at the Dushanbe airport.
The trial began in the Khujand city court on July 14.
We will recall that the Khujand city court last month sentenced two local women to eight years in jail for human trafficking. The Khujand cit court on June 20 found Nargisakhon Usmonjonova, 33, and Manizha Rahimova, 27, guilty of using a Tajik woman as a sex-slave without her consent in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Investigators say the two women promised to find a good job abroad for the woman, brought her to Dubai and forcibly took her documents from her and sold her into sex-slavery for $7,000.
In February, the Khujand city court sentenced three local women to prison terms between 5 and 5 1/2 years after finding them guilty in exploiting local young women as prostitutes in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
