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That slow-footedness gave criminals time to wrap their tentacles around the district, as the city's first high-profile sex-trafficking trial showed this summer. Two German-Turkish brothers, Saban and Hasan Baran, were charged with running a large-scale prostitution operation, assaulting prostitutes and forcing some of them to undergo breast-enlargement operations; they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms in July. Yet despite that victory, law-enforcement officials believe many other criminals are escaping prosecution. "Girls just will not go to the police, in case these men threaten their families at home," says a police officer...
...Anwar can't afford to get too comfortable in his post-win glow. He still has plenty of political hurdles to clear after he is sworn into parliament this week - chiefly, his upcoming trial, which opens on Sept. 10 in Kuala Lumpur. The government told parliament earlier this month that prosecutors have a strong case and promised a fair trial. Anwar has countered, saying with corruption and collusion at historical highs, a fair trial will be impossible and has requested the government drop the Attorney General's case. As Welsh warns: "The political heat [will] cool off during Ramadan next...
...Gadd hopes to clear his name. He has claimed publicly that he did not know the age of consent in Vietnam was 18, and describes his legal ordeal there as a farce. "He tells me that his trial in Vietnam . . . was a charade, was a travesty of justice," Corker said. "He's pleased to be back because there is a possibility that, for the first time, he can appear before a court of justice...
...death by firing squad. Gadd denied these charges, but did confess to showering with at least one girl and sharing his bed with her because she was afraid of ghosts. According to Gadd's lawyer in Vietnam, Gadd paid the victims' families $2,000 each prior to the trial, and lesser charges for sexual abuse were subsequently filed...
...Some of your closest aides are suspected of stealing land, smuggling drugs and running illegal militias. Yet you balk at bringing them to trial. One of our biggest sources of contention with the international community has been their use of [militias as] private security companies. [That's] one of the reasons for insecurity on our highways. This is something that we do not support, that we are publicly and officially very much against. It is something with which I have called on all members of the international community, on all the ambassadors...