Indonesia opens trials of 6 accused of enslaving fishermen
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An Indonesian court opened the trials Monday of five Thais and an Indonesian charged with human trafficking connected with slavery in the seafood industry.
The suspects were arrested in the remote island village of Benjina in May after the slavery was revealed by The Associated Press in a report two months earlier.
The defendants were being tried separately by a three-judge panel led by Edy Toto Purba, at the District Courtin Tual, a municipality in southeastern Maluku province, about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) east of the capital, Jakarta.
