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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06ATHENS3240 |
PRESS REPORTS LINK TRAFFICKING TO PRIVATE [...] (U) This week, Athens police arrested a 41 year-old British woman in connection with the kidnapping of an infant child bed!&!)&! Q) ! 1Q year-old Romanian Roma #iQ,& T(%Q T%e&!g%$ victim was also arre1T%$ !&4%R !k%Qd!)&).' to police that she (!d "e%f !h%!Q%$ #QT !b the 14,000 euro that 4(eQQ [...] |
2006-12-22 08:28:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG HSTC GR BU RO |
| 06YEREVAN1019 |
A PROSTITUTE'S STORY: SEX AND TRAFFICKING IN [...] (C) Poverty and desperation are the largest factors contributing to trafficking in persons in Armenia, according to prostitutes, police and NGOs in Vanadzor, Armenia's third-largest city. We met them during a July 14 trip to the city, where prostitutes gather after dusk in the traffic circle outsid [...] |
2006-07-28 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL PGOV AM |
| 06YEREVAN1091 |
AMBASSADOR PUSHES PROSECUTOR GENERAL ON TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Ambassador, DCM and Poloff met with Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan August 8 about allegations of investigative misconduct and abuse in connection with a human trafficking case. The underlying case involves three prostitutes who allege they were trafficked from Armenia to Turk [...] |
2006-08-09 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KWMN KCRM PREL PGOV PHUM HSTC AM TU |
| 06YEREVAN1101 |
APPARENT REPRISAL: TAX POLICE INSPECT ANTI-TIP NGO [...] (C) An anti-trafficking NGO reported a surprise visit from tax inspectors August 10, two days after the Ambassador pushed the Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan to investigate allegations of investigative corruption the "Hope and Help" NGO had raised with the Embassy (reftel). A [...] |
2006-08-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KTIP HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN1161 |
PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S NEW ANTI-TIP NGO COMMITTEE [...] (C) On August 21, the Prosecutor General (PG) announced the formation of an NGO committee to assist it in its anti- TIP efforts. Anti-TIP NGO leaders generally feel the creation of such a team is a good idea, as long as it is allowed to function fully and does not become a tool for the PG to [...] |
2006-08-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN139 |
ARMENIA CONVICTS MORE TRAFFICKERS [...] (SBU) On January 12 the first instance court of Kotayk Region sentenced Gayane Mirzoyan and Avetis Kiziriyan to four and a half years of prison under charges of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The defendants worked for a notorious pimp in Dubai, Anahit Malkhasyan, who died in a car accident on [...] |
2006-01-31 12:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
| 06YEREVAN1524 |
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL'S TIP-MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION [...] (C) An internal probe of allegations of misconduct with human traffickers by two investigators in the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office is apparently over, and the investigators reportedly cleared of all charges. No results have been released publicly. Sources within the PG's Office and some [...] |
2006-10-31 04:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN1548 |
POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) Post delivered a major push on trafficking in persons this week, meeting a number of senior government officials to discuss the GOAM's anti-trafficking efforts. In each meeting, we delivered a strong message: Armenia risks another year on the Tier 2 Watch List, or worse, if the GOAM doesn' [...] |
2006-11-02 14:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN1597 |
ARMENIA'S TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Armenia has improved its record on four of the five interim assessment indicators provided to post by G/TIP. There have been no positive developments so far this year for the fifth indicator, "vigorously investigating and prosecuting officials for complicity in trafficking." However, we [...] |
2006-11-14 06:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | HSTC KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG AM |
| 06YEREVAN1667 |
RESULTS OF POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) A November 27 meeting with the Prosecutor General (PG) suggests our series of "straight talk" interventions with GOAM officials in late October and early November (ref B) may be bearing fruit. The PG was more forthcoming than in previous meetings, foreshadowing changes to the PG anti-TIP u [...] |
2006-12-01 11:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
| 06YEREVAN1715 |
RESULTS OF PG'S TIP INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Although we believe the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office's internal probe into allegations of investigatorial misconduct was less than thorough, we were pleased to learn December 11 that the PG's order to restructure his Anti-TIP Unit includes the reduction in status and transfer of the ac [...] |
2006-12-13 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
| 06YEREVAN1716 |
ARMENIA PROSECUTES FIRST LABOR TRAFFICKING CASE [...] (SBU) On December 12, a court in Gyumri ruled on the first-ever labor trafficking case in Armenia, sentencing the trafficker to five years of imprisonment and financial compensation for the victims. According to testimony, the victims had been trafficked to Russia to work construction near Alme [...] |
2006-12-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN214 |
USG'S TIP REPORT: DRIVING ARMENIA'S ANTI-TIP [...] (SBU) On February 9 the State Inter-Agency Anti- Trafficking Commission met to discuss GOAM efforts on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) throughout 2005 in advance of the submission of the USG annual TIP Report. Members of the Commission representing state bodies (Ministry of Justice, Mi [...] |
2006-02-13 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
| 06YEREVAN267 |
PROSECUTOR GENERAL LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) On February 17, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan created a commission to investigate allegations against his employees including the investigator of his Anti-Trafficking Unit, Aristakes Yeremyan (see paragraph 6). In a meeting with the DCM, Hovsepyan was notably upset about Armenia's [...] |
2006-02-23 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP HSTC |
| 06YEREVAN484 |
JUDGES CONTINUE TO DEMONIZE TIP VICTIMS AND [...] (SBU) Armenian courts continue to stigmatize trafficking victims and hinder the efforts of law-enforcement bodies to punish traffickers. On March 2 the Court of Appeals downgraded a trafficking conviction into pimping and reduced the key defendant's sentence. Hope and Help NGO, which provide [...] |
2006-04-05 08:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP HSTC PGOV PREL AM |
| 06YEREVAN56 |
TRAFFICKER SENTENCED IN FIRST CASE OF ARMENIA [...] (SBU) On January 8, the first instance court of Artashat sentenced Sos Meliksetyan, charged under the trafficking statute (Article 132) with aggravating circumstances (reftels), to two years of corrective labor. Under this verdict Meliksetyan, who exploited three women and a minor girl from U [...] |
2006-01-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
| 07DARESSALAAM1183 |
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS UPDATE FOR TANZANIA [...] (U) The Government of Tanzania (GOT), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs are addressing trafficking in persons (TIP) on a number of fronts. The Ministry of Health is working with IOM to increase awareness of TIP and IOM is finalizing the report of its 2006 research asses [...] |
2007-08-21 14:23:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL HSTC SOCI EAID PREF PGOV KWMN SMIG KCRM |
| 07GUANGZHOU485 |
Fuzhou - Fraud Capital of China - (1 of 2) A Detailed Look [...] (SBU) Summary: An analysis of the past year's immigrant visa statistics, discussions with other units and consulates, and a deluge of unsolicited tips still point to the Fuzhou area of Fujian province (Fuzhou, Changle, Mawei, Lianjiang, Fuqing, and Putian) as the capital of visa fraud and illeg [...] |
2007-04-23 10:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC |
| 07GUANGZHOU486 |
Fuzhou Alien Smuggler's advice - study in the U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Through an aggressive outreach program, Post actively encourages Chinese students to attend colleges and universities in the United States. However, Post continues to encounter well-organized attempts by visa brokers and snakeheads to send applicants, primarily from Fujian, to t [...] |
2007-04-24 01:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC |
| 07GUANGZHOU487 |
Fuzhou - Fraud Capital of China (2 of 2): 3 Days in Fuzhou [...] (SBU) Summary: A Conoff from Guangzhou's Fraud Prevention Unit and a LES Investigator visited Fuzhou from January 29-31, performing 14 immigrant-visa field investigations. Of the 14, 12 were confirmed to involve fraud and one applicant could not be located. In many cases, neighbors and village [...] |
2007-04-24 01:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC |
| 07YEREVAN106 |
GOAM ACTIVE ON TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN, RAISING [...] (C) Charge d'affaires presented the interim TIP report to Armenian DFM Arman Kirakossian January 30, a week later than first planned, because Kirakossian had had to travel abroad. CDA emphasized the progress Armenia had made, and pointed out that its relatively positive interim assessment was l [...] |
2007-01-31 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
| 07YEREVAN1437 |
ARMENIA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] On December 6, Armenia's government approved the new 2007-2008 National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Armen Baiburtyan, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented the NPA on behalf of the government, and said the new NPA will focus more on the implement [...] |
2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 07YEREVAN1446 |
ARMENIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND-UP (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER) [...] (U) Headlines in this round-up: -- MONITORING OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE -- CIVIL PROTEST OVER INFORMATION POLICY OF PUBLIC TV -- CONTINUING REPORTS OF MEDIA CLAMPDOWN -- THE ONGOING TRAVAILS OF GALA TV -- TER-PETROSSIAN'S PRE-ELECTION MONITORING REPORTS -- HOUSING CERTIFICATES FOR 1 [...] |
2007-12-18 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC SOCI ELAB KDEM KJUS KWMN HSTC |
| 07YEREVAN162 |
MAJOR TRAFFICKING RECRUITER SENT TO PRISON [...] (SBU) Four TIP defendants were convicted January 31, after a four-month hearing. The defendants had been accused in connection with a case involving the three witnesses (reftels) who complained of misconduct by an investigator in the prosecutor general's office the previous summer. This case [...] |
2007-02-15 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN HSTC AM |
| 07YEREVAN351 |
NEW STAFF OF THE ANTI-TIP UNIT A WELCOME CHANGE [...] (SBU) Four months into the staff changes that took effect in the Anti-Trafficking Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office in December, 2006 (reftel), Armenia's premier anti-TIP NGO, Hope and Help, reports a great new spirit of mutual cooperation with the unit's new staff. The unit's new lead i [...] |
2007-03-23 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
| 07YEREVAN406 |
ARMENIA REQUESTS UZBEK HELP TO LOCATE ESCAPED [...] (C) The Armenian Police has renewed its request for assistance from Uzbek law enforcement in locating a convicted trafficker who escaped from an Armenian prison in early 2006. The trafficker, Anush Zakharyants, is an ethnic Armenian citizen of Uzbekistan, who is believed to be hiding in Samar [...] |
2007-04-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
| 07YEREVAN661 |
TRAFFICKING VICTIMS HELD IN GEORGIA RETURNED TO [...] (C) Two alleged Armenian trafficking victims who had been held in a Georgian jail for six months returned to Armenia May 17, and are in the care of an active anti-trafficking NGO. Anti-trafficking activists hailed the return of Anna Harutyunyan and Lianna Krasnova as a textbook case of good c [...] |
2007-05-22 11:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM HSTC GG AM |
| 07YEREVAN691 |
CDA'S LUNCH WITH DEPUTY PG AND ANTI-TIP WORKERS [...] (C) We gathered together post's most reliable anti-TIP interlocutors in the Armenian government for a May 29 lunch at the CDA's residence. The guest list included Deputy Prosecutor General Gevorg Danielyan and two other members of the PG's staff, as well as the heads of the MFA's Internationa [...] |
2007-05-30 07:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
| 07YEREVAN783 |
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM RESTRUCTURES INVESTIGATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian law enforcement is grappling with a major restructuring that strips the powerful Prosecutor General's or "Procuracy" organization of all its investigative functions and staff, transferring the investigators themselves into police agencies. The reform is an excellent one [...] |
2007-06-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KJUS KCRM KDEM KTIP HSTC |
| 07YEREVAN888 |
NEW CDA CALLS ON DFM KIRAKOSSIAN: RADIO LIBERTY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires met Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian for initial GOAM courtesy call, (with FM Oskanian abroad), which then delved into substance. Kirakossian said he and his minister fully agreed with us on Radio Liberty, but urged CDA to raise it at higher levels. Kirakoss [...] |
2007-07-12 05:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HSTC KTIP AM TU |
| 08YEREVAN555 |
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER UPBEAT, ENGAGED ON FIGHTING TIP [...] (SBU) On July 4, Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorkian convoked his first meeting with the international community and NGOs in his capacity as chair of the new Ministerial Anti-Trafficking Council. He asserted that henceforth no one will doubt the seriousness of Armenian intentions on fighting [...] |
2008-07-08 12:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 09YEREVAN259 |
GOAM USES NEW NRM FOR LABOR TRAFFICKING CASE [...] (SBU) On March 17, Armenian police reported their launching of an investigation into a major labor trafficking case involving the forced labor of Armenian men in Russia. According to police, three suspected traffickers recruited and transferred eight male victims to a remote village in Russia' [...] |
2009-04-16 13:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP KCRM HSTC RU AM |
| 09YEREVAN263 |
ARMENIAN TRAFFICKER SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS [...] (SBU) On April 2 a Yerevan court sentenced an ex-convict to seven years in prison for trafficking. This individual was found guilty of forcing Armenian boys into panhandling (reftel), after being prosecuted under a trafficking charge. According to the prosecutor who tried the case, the court' [...] |
2009-04-17 12:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 09YEREVAN300 |
ORGANIZED TRAFFICKING GROUP BUSTED - MAIN FELON GETS [...] (SBU) On April 20 a Yerevan court sentenced four women on tracking charges to sentences ranging from one to 13 years in prison. The 13-year sentence is the highest trafficking penalty in Armenia so far. The group was charged for trafficking women from Yerevan to Dubai mainly via Moscow beginn [...] |
2009-05-06 14:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 09YEREVAN494 |
ARMENIA CONTINUES AGGRESSIVE PROSECUTION OF TRAF... [...] (SBU) A major trafficking in persons trial involving two Russian nationals began July 6 in Yerevan. The defendants -- a mother and her daughter -- are accused of trafficking into Armenia, and exploiting as striptease dancers, 24 trafficking victims from Russia. In addition to trafficking charges, t [...] |
2009-07-15 07:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |