{"id":10617,"date":"2019-10-31T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/modern-slavery-cannot-be-tackled-if-victims-treated-as-criminals"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T06:00:14","slug":"modern-slavery-cannot-be-tackled-if-victims-treated-as-criminals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"Modern slavery cannot be tackled if victims treated as criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illegally trafficked migrants will stay silent if police continue to report victims to Home Office<\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, a terrified 18-year-old Vietnamese man walked into a police station in London and told police that he had spent five years being trafficked in and out of cannabis houses by criminal gangs across the capital.<\/p>\n<p>In halting English, he tried to explain how he had been taken from Vietnam, travelling overland across Europe, before being put in the back of a refrigerated lorry in France and brought to the UK to work in cannabis cultivation, he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/31\/modern-slavery-cannot-be-tackled-if-victims-treated-as-criminals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegally trafficked migrants will stay silent if police continue to report victims to Home OfficeIn January 2018, a terrified 18-year-old Vietnamese man walked into a police station in London and told police that he had spent five years being traffick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[886,372,717,713,79,52,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis","category-drugs","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-slavery","category-society","category-uk-news","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions\/10629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}