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Between Eritrea and the Netherlands, the nightmare of migrants who are victims of human trafficking. Photo: A migrant in a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, stands with one hand on his cheek, almost appearing to be asleep.
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Waiting for Eritrean human traffickers’ trials in the Netherlands

A year and six months after a string of arrests of human traffickers accused of holding families living in the Netherlands to ransom, Dutch courts are making slow progress towards trials. Our correspondent attended the latest hearings at the Court of Zwolle, eagerly followed by the Eritrean community, which the defendants come from.
By Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)
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