Thai women in limbo at Lindela

18 March 2016 - 03:06
By Graeme Hosken

Dozens of Thai women - rescued in an anti-trafficking raid by Johannesburg police - are being illegally imprisoned by the Department of Home Affairs in its Lindela Repatriation Centre. Nearly 50 women have spent the past four months at the centre. This is despite a court order that the department must deal with the women's cases under the Prevention of Combating of Trafficking Persons Act.

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