Human trafficking in Cyprus

Police arrested six people in Athens on Monday for running a sex-trafficking gang.

The suspects include four Greek men aged between 30 and 33, as well as two Romanian nationals, a 50-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman.

32 human trafficking victims - mostly women and girls - have been identified in Serbia this year and in ten cases the victims were minors.

This is according to an NGO, that issued a statement ahead of October 18, the EU Anti-Trafficking Day, Tanjug has reported.

Bulgaria has been a main source of people forcefully taken to Western Europe between 2011 and 2014, a report unveiled by the Council of Europe says, cited by Dnevnik.bg.

In the first operation, 11 persons who "were involved for long period of time in the trafficking of migrants to the European Union countries" were arrested, the police said.

Some 876 cases of human trafficking were officially reported in Romania last year, which was down on the figure for 2012 but showed that the problem persists, officials say.