Trafficked, beaten and raped: raids reveal scale of abuse of women in Asias cyberscam centres

As tens of thousands are freed, female survivors are increasingly reporting gender-based violence in the compounds, previously thought to hold mainly menLate one evening in October 2023, Sarah* felt labour pains starting. It was 11pm, but at the cyberscam compound inside Laos Golden Triangle, workers were logging on for a long night shift, scamming Americans online.Every night, workers sat at their computers until the early hours, building fake profiles of glamorous, jet-setting women on Faceboo...