Three Afghans who ran people smuggling gang and abused child migrants arrested in UK

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1. **From The Telegraph:**

   Three Afghan people smugglers who were part of a gang that sexually abused young male migrants have been arrested in the UK.

   The men were part of an organised crime group that “inflicted extreme cruelty” on the vulnerable people they smuggled, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary said.

   The trio helped smuggle migrants from Afghanistan through Iran, Turkey and the Balkans into France and Belgium.

   From there, many of the people they smuggled made their way to the UK by travelling across the channel in small boats, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

   Young boys who made the journey were often seriously sexually abused, with gang members filming the assaults. The footage was then used to blackmail their victims into taking part in “further criminality and sexual abuse”.

   Saifur Rahman Ahmedzai, also known as Raees Hamza, 23, was arrested in Hemel Hempstead on Monday. Zeeshan Banghis, 20, also known as Bangash Zeeshan, 20, was arrested in New Kent Road, London on December 18.

   In footage of his arrest, released by the NCA, Banghis appears to say to officers “you can’t arrest me” before being detained.

   Their arrests came after Ziarmal Khan, also known as Boxer Bhai, 24, was arrested on December 6 at Stansted Airport on suspicion of domestic violence.  He was then further arrested over his conviction in Belgium.

   So far 23 members of the gang have been convicted and sentenced by a court in Antwerp, 11 of whom were prosecuted in their absence.

   Ahmedzai was jailed for 10 years, while Khan and Banghis were each sentenced to three years, and all were fined 3,000 euros (£2,486).

   Extradition proceedings have begun to send them to Belgium to serve their prison sentences.

   The NCA worked with Belgian authorities for two years to build evidence against the gang, who now all face sentences ranging from two to 18 years.

   **More here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/30/three-afghans-people-smuggling-abused-migrants-arrested/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/30/three-afghans-people-smuggling-abused-migrants-arrested/)

2. Need to make strong examples out of these horrible fuckers

3. Hope they get all get the worst possible result in court.

4. Is it me or has there been a drastic increase in the amount of smugglers being caught recently?

5. Those who support open-borders do not have an issue with this

6. 3 down, can’t be too many more to go.

7. Three years, that’ll show them

8. Brill

9. I’m sure they’ll get a whopping great 18 month suspended sentence and a £70 court fees fine – that’ll show them. Oh and of course no deportation because that would be against their Human Rights

10. Why are news articles writing dates as ‘December 6th’ or ‘December 19th’? It looks so wrong to me because we don’t use mm/dd/yy!

    Minor irritation aside, keep up the good work because I expect there are countless more smugglers busy working!

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