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Sri Lankan public security minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday.
2025-11-9

American rapper and music producer Sean Combs is acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering and found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
2025-07-2

At least 114 people suspected of entering the United States illegally are detained in a raid by the DEA and ICE at a nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, which had been investigated for drug trafficking and prostitution.
2025-04-27

Resurfaced videos show Syrian Justice Minister Shadi al-Waisi overseeing the execution of two women in 2015 on prostitution charges according to Sharia.
2025-01-5

The United States House Committee on Ethics releases a report on former Florida representative and Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz, revealing that Gaetz paid women for sexual activity, committed statutory rape with a 17-year-old, possessed and used illegal drugs, accepted financial gifts beyond House limits, and assisted a woman in obtaining a passport.
2024-12-23

The National People's Congress abolishes the use of forced labor to punish sex workers, but states that prostitution will remain illegal.
2019-12-28

Prostitutes in Brussels' Rue d'Aerschot red-light district go on strike today after one of their colleagues is found murdered this morning.
2018-06-5

A new study shows Greece's six-year austerity program is even affecting prostitution. Gregory Laxos, a sociology professor at the Panteion University in Athens, told the "Times of London" the going rate for sex with a prostitute was 50 euros ($53) when the economic crisis began. Now, it’s fallen to as low as two euros ($2.12) for a 30-minute session, or to a cheese pie, a sandwich because they are hungry.
2015-11-27

Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is summoned to a prostitution investigation to deal with allegations of "improperly assisting" 17-year-old nightclub dancer he had at one of his private parties.
2011-01-14

Franck Ribéry and other footballers from the French national football team are investigated by police in connection with an underage prostitution ring.
2010-04-19