In July, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) handed out convictions for what they said was the “largest ever modern slavery prosecution” which was also “believed to be the biggest of its type in Europe” with up to 300 potential victims. Eight Polish-heritage traffickers were handed jail sentences for luring homeless and drug-addicted Poles from their home country to Birmingham to work jobs including picking onions for as little as £10 a week. The criminals had also welfare benefits from their victims who they forced to sleep in substandard accommodation. … [Read more...] about Police Investigate Human Trafficking, Slavery of Romanian Fruit Pickers
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Lib Dem Leader: Pandemic Means ‘Delaying Brexit by Two Years Is Just Common Sense’
Sir Ed’s proposal to extend the transition for two years — meaning that, the better part of a decade on from the British people’s vote to Leave the European Union, the country would still not be free of the bloc in a meaningful sense — is backed by a range of EU loyalist British opposition leaders, as well as the EU itself. … [Read more...] about Lib Dem Leader: Pandemic Means ‘Delaying Brexit by Two Years Is Just Common Sense’
US and China clash over Hong Kong laws at closed UN meeting
Britain’s acting U.N. ambassador, Jonathan Allen, said the U.K. raised Hong Kong because the national security legislation “risks curtailing the freedoms that China has undertaken to uphold” and if implemented “will exacerbate the existing deep divisions in Hong Kong society.” … [Read more...] about US and China clash over Hong Kong laws at closed UN meeting
Virus ignited in US no earlier than mid-January, study says
White House officials in February declared the virus was contained and not a current risk to the American public. Until late February, coronavirus infections were too rarely diagnosed by emergency departments to be identified as a growing epidemic, the study found. … [Read more...] about Virus ignited in US no earlier than mid-January, study says
