Islamabad-based correspondent Kathy Gannon spent months tracking down an official list of 629 poor Pakistani girls and women trafficked as brides to China. The story provided the first concrete evidence of the scale of China’s trafficking of brides, many of whom are sold into prostitution, physically and sexually abused, or forced to undergo fertility treatments. https://bit.ly/2M4QI4T
AP documents China’s trafficking of poor Pakistanis as brides
Sumaira a Pakistani woman, shows a picture of her Chinese husband in Gujranwala, Pakistan,. May 22, 2019. Sumaira, who didn't want her full name used, was raped repeatedly by Chinese men at a house in Islamabad where she was brought to stay after her brothers arranged her marriage to the older Chinese man. The Associated Press has obtained a list, compiled by Pakistani investigators that identifies hundreds of girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China.
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