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Co-founder’s suicide delays prostitution trial of Backpage executives

Previous trial of executives at now-closed website ended in mistrial

The Independent UK

Six held in Romania and London as part of human trafficking investigation

The Metropolitan Police believe an organised crime network is using male recruiters to traffic women and force them into prostitution.

The Independent UK

Another harrowing escape puts attention on open prostitution market along Seattle's Aurora Avenue

The kidnapping of a woman who authorities say escaped her abductor by punching her way out of a cinder block cell in Oregon has focused attention on the area where authorities say she was taken: Aurora Avenue in Seattle, an urban stretch of state highway lined with box stores and…

The Independent UK

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‘The police see us as disposable’: what life’s really like in New York’s maligned ‘red light district’

As rightwing media and the mayor target a Queens neighborhood, sex workers say they’re just trying to survive

The Guardian - US

Is Trump's Latest Indictment About Defending Democracy or Attacking Free Speech?

Plus: More "manifesting prostitution" nonsense, U.S. loses top-tier credit rating, and more...

Reason

Dallas Law Against 'Manifesting' Prostitution Declared Unconstitutional

Plus: The right to call neighbor a "red-headed bitch," the case against a Digital Consumer Protection Commission, and more...

Reason

Home Office minister says paying for sex should be outlawed to stop trafficking of women into prostitution

The minister’s comments came during a hearing on human trafficking in which she was pressed on the lack of prosecutions of men having sex with trafficked women

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Court Says Prostitution Law Doesn't Violate First Amendment but Language Should Be Interpreted Narrowly

Plus: Democrats dismiss nonwhite moderates, Schumer wants investigation into energy drink, GOP prosecutors threaten Target over Pride merchandise, and more...

Reason

Drug Busts Are Linked to More Overdoses and Deaths

Plus: Government appeals social media order, Amsterdam attempts to move prostitution out of red-light district, and more...

Reason

New measures at Nottingham's Forest Rec after anti-social behaviour, drinking and prostitution issues

Officers have introduced a number of initiatives at the spot

Nottingham Post

Brothel owner earned thousands running 'significant operation' in town

Guoyan Ma was found guilty of five charges of controlling prostitution for gain involving women aged between 35 and 49

Manchester Evening News

Life 'like hell' in Nottingham area where children would wake up to 'sex noises' before brothel shut

The community speak out over the drug use, prostitution and serious antisocial behaviour in their area

Nottingham Post

Nottingham drug den house described as a 'magnet' for criminality shut down

There have been problems with drug use, prostitution and serious antisocial behaviour

Nottingham Post

Jalna Hanmer obituary

Feminist scholar who campaigned against male violence and was determined to improve the police’s approach to domestic abuse

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The Hindu

CCB busts prostitution racket, rescues 26 women

Officials on the Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Thursday busted an inter-state prostitution racket, and arrested nine people operating the ring, and rescued 26 women from them.

Reason

Prosecutors Say Backpage Defendants Shouldn't Be Allowed To Reference the 1st Amendment

Prosecutors also want a judge to take basically all possible defenses off the table.

Reason

Maine's Legislature Passes Bill To Partially Decriminalize Prostitution

Plus: Court rules that naked female spa can't exclude transgender women, Biden vetoes bill blocking student loan forgiveness, and more...

Reuters

Iran says it executes leader of women trafficking network

Iran’s judiciary said on Saturday that it had executed the head of a network that trafficked Iranian women to neighbouring countries for prostitution.

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Liverpool Echo

Prostitution gang brought down after 'controlled' women found working in brothels

Police say the women were "treated as nothing more than a commodity"

The Guardian - UK

Thai conservatives vow to legalise sex toys in bid to shake up election

Freedom to use devices could curb prostitution, divorce and sex-related crimes, says Democrat party politician

Irish Mirror

Woman arrested as part of probe into organised prostitution and money laundering

The woman is currently being detained at a Garda station in Dublin

Dublin Live

Woman arrested in Dublin in connection with prostitution and money laundering gang

Investigations into the Eastern European gang continue with a number of searches also taking place

The Independent UK

Takeaways from AP report on impact of Senegal's gas project

For years, residents of the small fishing town of Saint-Louis in Senegal have been struggling

The Independent UK

Senegal gas deal drives locals to desperation, prostitution

When the gas rig arrived off the coast of Saint-Louis, residents of the seaside Senegalese town found reason to hope

Reason

5 Years After the Backpage Shutdown, Sex Workers—and Free Speech—Are Still Suffering

As former Backpage execs await their August trial, the shutdown is still worsening the lives it was supposed to improve.

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