Two men to appear in court on human trafficking charges
Two Saskatchewan men facing charges of human trafficking are to appear in court in Rosetown on Thursday.
The charges against 41-year-old Mohammad Masum from Tisdale and 52-year-old Sohel Haider stem from an RCMP investigation into forced labour at three Saskatchewan restaurants.
On July 6, the RCMP said in a release that a woman from Bangladesh in Canada on a visitor’s permit was forced to work 10- to 12-hour days at restaurants in three different towns — Gull Lake, Elrose and Tisdale — after she applied for a restaurant job in Saskatchewan.
The RCMP said the woman stayed in a dark, unfinished concrete basement when she wasn’t working.