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Vietnam jailed 4 for trafficking women to Sgp
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - An official says a court in southern Vietnam has sentenced four people to up to eight years in prison for trafficking women to work as prostitutes in Singapore.

Court official Pham Thi Ha says that ring leader Vo Thi Hiep was jailed for eight years for human trafficking and three others received three to six years behind bars on the same charges following Monday's trial in Tay Ninh province.

She says the ring was convicted of selling 10 Vietnamese women to a Singapore brothel for $50 each between September last year and February. The victims had been promised jobs at restaurants.

Ha said Tuesday that one trafficked woman refused to work in the brothel and arranged for her family to buy her freedom for $900. She then reported the ring to police.