20 August 2003 Mansura Begbaeva is an attractive young woman with shoulder-length brown hair and a grim smile. She has a dark story to tell. Begbaeva is one of hundreds of Uzbek women who have been duped into working in the global sex industry. Now she seeks to prevent other young women from making the same mistake. Begbaeva’s ordeal began […]

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