A police officer wearing a mask and standing on duty at Chinatown district in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai prosecutors turned down about a fifth of human trafficking cases sent to them by police last year, a soon-to-be released government report shows, raising concerns that police were on a drive to boost numbers to enhance Thailand's global image. - Reuters
BANGKOK: Thai prosecutors turned down about a fifth of human trafficking cases sent to them by police last year, a soon-to-be released government report shows, raising concerns that police were on a drive to boost numbers to enhance Thailand's global image.
The 79-page report - drafted to inform an annual US report ranking countries on their efforts to combat trafficking and revealed exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation - showed Thailand's public prosecutors rejected 64 of 364 cases in 2019.
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