Largest-ever human trafficking trial ends with 20-year sentence
by editors@theworld.org (Andrew Connelly) from The World: Latest Stories on (#735YZ)
A court in the Netherlands this week sentence a man to 20 years imprisonment in one of Europe's most significant human trafficking trials in history. Amanuel Walid was accused of running a vast network of trafficking, hostage-taking, extortion and sexual violence against migrants in Libya. They were held in detention camps and tortured until families in the Netherlands paid huge ransoms. Andrew Connelly reports from Zwolle, in the Netherlands.