Trafficking of Women & Children from Armenia -- 2

This week's Hetq Online continues to publish more articles on the trafficking of women and children from Armenia, and in particular, the investigation conducted by Edik Baghdasarian and Ara Manoogian who visited Dubai a number of times over the past year. If this latest installment is anything to go by, the remaining installments will be even more illuminating.

Marietta has been wanted by Interpol since 2003. It would be naive to think that the United Arab Emirates Police or the local Interpol office didn't know that Marietta Musayelyan was in Dubai. Today we know the whereabouts of six Armenian women who are being sought by Interpol -- we managed to find them in three visits to Dubai within one year. It would only take Dubai law enforcement a few days to find them and send them back to Armenia. They just don't want to.

Then why did Marietta Musayelyan and her boyfriend-bodyguard Armen Ghazaryan come back? A year ago Marietta 's son was arrested for bringing drugs to the UAE from Iran. He was sentenced to nine years in prison, which he is now serving. It is possible that Marietta is trying to somehow transfer her son to Armenia to serve his sentence here. Or perhaps that she's trying to get her name off Interpol. All she'll have to do is spend a couple of months in jail, just like last time. Armenian prosecutors only seek mild sentences for human trafficking.

The full text of the article along with other articles on trafficking and an update on the Carolann Najarian case can be read online at: http://www.hetq.am/

Posted by Onnik on February 24, 2005 | TrackBack | Email to a friend