A man giving a haircut to a fellow Central Asian migrant in a Moscow apartment. Photo by Fred S. via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) On August 2, 2022, a court in Kazakhstan sentenced Murat Meirbekov, a 56-year-old Kazakh resident of Georgia, to 15 years in prisonfor rape and human trafficking. His alleged accomplice Besik Tordua, a Georgian man accused of rape and induction to suicide, passed away while in custody in Georgia on July 15. The incident exposed a pattern of international human trafficking for the purpose of sexual slavery and the impediments to legal cooperation. According to the court rep…
