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European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo to investigate organ trafficking

Laila Rodriguez — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:36:34 +0000

GenevaLunch.com KOSOVO – The Associated Press is reporting that the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has named a US prosecutor to investigate claims brought forth by a Swiss lawyer that Prime Minister Hashim Thaci led a criminal network that sold organs of civilian captives during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war. John Clint Williamson [...]

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Drug bust in Geneva, 5 people arrested

Laila Rodriguez — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:41:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A drug bust this past weekend in Geneva resulted in five people arrested and 10 kilos of cocaine seized. According to information first presented by the Tribune de Genève, and confirmed by Geneva prosecutor, Adrian Holloway, a Spanish national and four Colombians were arrested for their alleged involvement in the trafficking [...]

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Council of Europe, Marty, make public Kosovo organ trafficking report (update 2)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:38:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Brussels, Belgium and Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Evidence of organ trafficking in Kosovo and brutal treatment of some 500 Kosovo Serb prisoners before they disappeared, by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), are two of the damning details that are part of a report made public 14 December by the Council of Europe. The [...]

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Migration Organization and Mexico to fight trafficking, kidnapping

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:03:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Chihuaha map View Larger Map Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva and Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission launched a major information campaign 13 September in Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, after the two signed an agreement to fight human trafficking and kidnapping in Mexico. Criminal gangs in [...]

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Geneva police drug haul – 125 kg of khat

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:15:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Customs officials at Cointrin International Airport found 125kg of khat (qat) in the suitcases of three people arriving from London, a man who is Estonian but resident in London and two Hungarian women. The stimulant is legal in some countries but illegal elsewhere, including in most of Europe. The WHO has [...]

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Illegal ivory trafficking on rise

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:27:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com West and Central Africa appear to the be source of a sharp increase since 2008 in illegal trade in ivory, with China as the main destination, according to Traffic, a group that monitors ivory trade. Trafficking has doubled, the group reports. The suspected increase is based on quantities of ivory seized, which are likely only [...]

Laos gives life sentence to British woman, pregnant, for drug trafficking

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:49:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Samantha Orobator of the UK was given a life sentence for drug trafficking rather than the usual death penalty, and it appears she may be able to serve her sentence in the UK, reports the Telegraph, UK. She was charged with carrying 680 grams of heroin when she tried to board a flight from Laos [...]

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Police fan across Mexican drug wars city, Ciudad Juarez

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:51:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Mexican police are staging one of their biggest operations in years to try “to prevent a collapse in law and order just south of the US border,” reports Reuters. Ciudad Juarez, a desert city just south of El Paso, Texas, has been the scene for several months of a bloody war between police and drug [...]

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