Thai woman arrested for trafficking women to Middle East.

A Thai woman has been arrested on suspicion of trafficking women into forced prostitution in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. La-iad Kaewdee, 32, was arrested today in Muang Samut Prakan. The Police division deputy commander Colonel Jaruwat Vaisaya said that a victim had escaped from a brothel in a Middle Eastern country and had named La-iad as one of her traffickers, after the Thai foreign ministry had helped the woman return home. The victim had allegedly been offered a well paid job at a restaurant, but when she arrived, she was told she owed her traffickers money, her passport was taken and she was forced into prostitution. To read more about this and other related stories, please visit The Nation, by clicking here.