Iran claims that the women trafficking network's chief was killed

 

The chief of a network that transported Iranian women to neighboring nations for prostitution, according to Iran's court, was put to death.

The head of a "escort and trafficking network of Iranian women and girls to some countries in the region", according to the judiciary's Mizan news agency, was identified as Shahrooz Sakhnoori, also known as "Alex".

According to the statement, Sakhnoori was put to death early on Saturday "for the crime of human trafficking for the purpose of prostitution".

In 2020, "Alex" was reportedly apprehended in Malaysia with the assistance of Interpol and brought to Iran, according to Iranian media.

On allegations of "corruption on earth," which the Iranian government uses to describe a variety of offenses, including those involving morals, he was given the death penalty in September 2021.

Indictments for "corruption on earth" and human trafficking resulted in the death sentences of two women two years ago.

Advocates, however, claimed that those ladies were innocent and LGBTQI rights campaigners.

Iran was included to a US list of nations in 2017 that were charged with failing to do more to combat human trafficking by the administration of former US President Donald Trump.

Two years later, the US State Department once more placed Iran in the report's Tier 3 group of nations, which represents those that take the least steps to combat crime.

According to a US statute passed in 2000 called the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, any nation that does not adhere to the basic requirements for eradicating trafficking and is not making steps to do so is not eligible for non-humanitarian, non-trade-related foreign aid from the US.

The 2019 State Department report said that "The Government of Iran does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so."