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Trafficking in persons
  • Acts Involved

    • • Transportation
      • Transfer
      • Harbouring
      • Buying/Purchasing/Selling
      • Receipt
  • Exploitative Purposes

    • • Slavery or practices similar to slavery

Adoption Date:

1872-09-16

UNTOC Articles

  • Organized Crime Convention

  • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

  • Any Article
  • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

  • Firearms Protocol

     

    Original Text

    Buying or disposing of any person as a slave

    370. Whoever imports, exports, removes, buys, sells or disposes of any person as a slave, or accepts, receives or detains against his will any person as a slave, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine.


    Habitual dealing in slaves

    371. Whoever habitually imports, exports, removes, buys, sells, traffics or deals in slaves, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.

     
     
     

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