China gang on trial for abducting and selling 27 women

Beijing: A gang accused of human trafficking is being tried in public in southwestern China for abducting 27 women from Vietnam and selling them as wives on the mainland, local media reported.

The group of 10, headed by a man surnamed Li, is accused of buying the victims and then reselling them to others in Guangdong, Hunan, Shandong and Hubei provinces between 2014 and 2016, according to the prosecutor in Yunnan’s Honghe prefecture, which shares a border with Vietnam.