Seven women in Nicosia previously described by police as possible victims of trafficking have been arrested, with a judge ordering them in remanded custody for multiple offences related to prostitution.
After initial interviews, designed for special anti-trafficking officers to assess whether the women were victims of sex trafficking, police said they arrested the females on suspicion of committing multiple offences such as pimping, running an illegal brothel, making a living from earnings of prostitutes, and illegal gains.
So they were not trafficked and now are charged with sex work-related offences, for example, pimping each other