Lebanese police free 75 girls from sex traffickers


  • World
  • Friday, 01 Apr 2016

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces have broken up a human trafficking network and freed 75 girls, mostly Syrians, they said were beaten and forced into prostitution.

A statement by the internal security forces, published on the National News Agency, said they arrested 10 men and eight women who had been guarding the girls during raids earlier this week on nightclubs and apartments in Jounieh, north of Beirut.

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