Forced prostitution

The Brazilian footballer will be temporarily released despite being found guilty of rape, with financial support once again provided by his former teammate

Police have announced the arrest over the weekend of two men on separate charges of sexually abusing minors.

On Saturday, a 55-year-old Greek national was arrested on a warrant issued after an investigation found he had attempted to rape his daughters while her mother was not at home. The alleged offences occurred between 2014 and 2019, when his daughters were aged 9 and 12.

The prosecutor's office in Berlin charged two Bulgarians with pimping, human trafficking and forced prostitution.

The German authorities assume that a 17-year-old Bulgarian girl was forced into prostitution in Berlin by her sister and her boyfriend, Nova TV reports.

With the support of Eurojust and Europol, the Regional and District Prosecutor's Office in Dobrich together with the Main Directorate "Fighting Organized Crime", the police and the prosecutor's office of the city of Heilbronn, Germany, have taken action against an organized criminal group for human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, announced the Prosecutor's Office.

He was charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault

He was one of at least 608 people convicted of sex crimes in Serbia between 2016 and 2020.

But eight years is more than many convicted rapists are jailed for in the Balkan country, where, according to a BIRN investigation of data for the last five years, half were sentenced to five years or less, five years being the minimum sentence under the law since 2017.

The Bosnian state court on Friday rejected the indictment charging Adem Kostjerevac with wartime rape because he was not questioned in accordance with the law during the investigation.

In closing arguments at the Bosnian state court on Tuesday, ex-soldier Adem Kostjerevac's defence said that the charges should be dismissed due to procedural errors or the defendant should be acquitted due to a lack of evidence.

Police in Edessa, northern Greece, have arrested a dangerous fugitive who has been convicted of multiple violent crimes, including rape, and is also wanted by authorities in Athens.

On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions taking stock of the human rights situation in Russia, Afghanistan and Burkina Faso.

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