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Law Prohibiting Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (1395/11/10) [2017].

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First Region

Afghanistan
Elimination of forced labour
2017-01-27
National
Law, Act

Second Region

The Law prohibits all forms of human trafficking and criminalizes the use of threat or force or other types of coercion or deceit for the purpose of exploitation. It includes forms of exploitation such as medical experiments and forcing a person to commit “other illegal activities,” and includes armed fighting and creating a new offence which prohibits bacha baazi, i.e. the exploitation of young boys by men for social and sexual entertainment.
The law prescribes maximum penalties of eight years imprisonment; aggravating factors increase the maximum sentence to between 10 and 15 years and the imposition of the death penalty if exploitation for armed fighting resulted in the victim’s death.

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Electronic region

Serial region

    Serial title
    Official Gazette, Extraordinary Issue
    Date
    2017-01-29
    Number
    No. 1244
    Page range
    pp. 6-41