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How a Saskatchewan MLA helped free a Bangladeshi slave

‘This was outside the kind of case we usually deal with. But once she called us, I felt a responsibility. She was alone out there’

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A Saskatchewan court has convicted two men of human trafficking in an unprecedented case that saw two MLAs intervene to free a Bangladeshi woman from modern slavery.

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Last week, Saskatchewan’s Court of King’s Bench convicted two men, a 55-year-old and a 44-year-old, of forcing a Bangladeshi national to work long hours in rural restaurants for little to no pay, and keeping her in conditions the court described as “squalid.” The 44-year-old also coerced the woman into sex on multiple occasions.

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“I do not have any reasonable doubt about the guilt of either,” Judge Miguel Martinez wrote in the Aug. 7 decision convicting both men of human trafficking, according a report by SaskToday. The 44-year-old was additionally convicted of three counts of sexual assault.

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