Photo caption: Illustration: Begging in Israel. Credit: Nir Kafri
Six human smuggling ringleaders arrested on suspicion of trafficking, forced labor, assault and rape.
Ilan Lior
Aug 23, 2016 1:41 AM
Haaretz
Police arrested six people on Monday suspected of smuggling deaf people from Eastern Europe into Israel, forcing them to work as beggars and confiscating their earnings.
The six are suspected of serious offenses, including human trafficking, false imprisonment, forced labor, assault, rape, withholding passports and conspiring to commit a crime.
Police said they were detained in a
