Shafaq News – Baghdad
Over 60 sex trafficking networks were dismantled during the first half of 2025, the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday.
According to Colonel Abbas al-Bahadli, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, the Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency uncovered and dismantled 62 sex exploitation networks, along with 9 human organ trafficking rings, 15 forced labor groups, 4 child-selling operations, and 6 networks involved in organized begging.