Shanghai tunnels have been used to smuggle people out of the United States to work as slaves aboard ships. The long land borders of the United States have always attracted drug smugglers, and countless tunnels have been built. Due to the country's restrictive policy on immigration in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and heightened security, many more secret tunnels were built to enter the country from Mexico, most running between Tijuana on the Mexican side and San Diego, California on the American side. The prevalent use is drug smuggling, but many other operati ...

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During the Siege of Sarajevo a tunnel underneath the no-man's land of the city's (closed) airport provided a vital smuggling link for the beleagured city residents. Guns were smuggled into the city and (at extortionate rates) people were smuggled out. It features in the British film "Welcome to Sarajevo" and the dark Serbian satire of conflict "Underground". ...

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The Ansar Burney Trust is a human rights organization in Pakistan. Ansar Burney Trust - Background. Established in 1980 by Ansar Burney, advocate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, the Ansar Burney Trust was the first organization to introduce true human rights in Pakistan. With a mission to work as a non-political, non-governmental and non-profitable organization, the Trust started working against all forms of injustices, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, child abuse, cruelty to women and o ...

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The Customs and Excise Department (C&ED) is responsible for the protection of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region against smuggling; the protection and collection of Government revenue on dutiable goods; the detection and deterrence of narcotics trafficking and abuse of controlled drugs; the protection of intellectual property rights; the protection of consumer interests; and the protection and facilitation of legitimate trade and upholding Hong Kong’s trading integrity. Customs and Excise Department - Over ...

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For the 2004 Velvet Revolver album, see Contraband (album). The notion of contraband indicates any item which, relating to its nature, is illegal to be possessed, sold etcetera. For goods that are absolutely forbidden, see List of items for which possession is restricted However the term is also commonly and in legal language used for goods that by nature may be owned but are liable to be seized because they were begot illegally, such as : smuggled goods< ...

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The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a non-profit international service organization that was started in May 1940 (as Unitarian Service Committee) out of an effort to smuggle Jews and other targeted groups out of Nazi Germany. Today it is a nonsectarian Associate Member organization of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and works to promote social justice and human rights around the world. It also is very active in disaster relief. Other related archivesGermany, Jews,

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The town of Beer is in southeast Devon, England, UK. The name is not derived from the drink but from an old word for woodland, due to the original forestation that surrounded the town. Close to Exeter, it is a picturesque coastal village that built up around a smuggler's cove and caves which were once used to store contraband goods. These are now part of the attraction of the town. Historically, the main sources of income for the town included fishing, smuggling, and lace production. Today, the sources are mainly tourism and fishing. Beer is also the hom ...

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Bootlegging is a slang term to describe smuggling. Most commonly, the word refers to the illegal sale of alcoholic beverages on which excise taxes have not been paid. It is said that the term comes from how the alcohol (or "booze" as it is commonly called) was hid in flasks on the legs of sellers, above or under the boot. The term is sometimes mistakenly used to refer exclusively to the production of untaxed alcoholic products; however, that is more accurately called "moonshining." Most bootleg liquor is not "home-made" by a moonshiner ...

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Copyright infringement (also known as piracy) is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. The slang term bootleg (derived from the use of the shank of a boot for the purposes of smuggling) is often used to describe illicitly copied material. In many jurisdictions, such as the United States, copyright infringement is a strict liability ...

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Concealment devices, as the term suggests, are used to hide things for the purpose of secrecy. Examples in espionage include dead drop spikes for transferring items to other people, and hollowed-out coins or teeth for concealing suicide pills. Examples in smuggling include suitcases with false bottoms for hiding contraband. The picture at right shows a hollow container, fashioned to look like an Eisenhower dollar, which is still used today to hide and send messages or film without being detected. Because it resemb ...

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Brujeria is a Mexican death-grind band. Their name comes from a Spanish language word meaning "witchcraft". Their Satanist, narcotic, refuse-to-play-live and masked attitude have been their passport to success, although they have recently performed live at locations across the United States and Latin America. Their songs, which are sung entirely in Spanish, are mostly satanic, anti-Christian, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, and politics related an ...

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Malum in se (plural mala in se) is a Latin phrase meaning wrong in itself; it is an act that is illegal from the nature of the act, i.e. it is inherently evil without any fact of its being noticed or punished; such crimes as larceny, rape and murder are considered malum in se. This concept was used to develop the various common law crimes. This term is to be distinguished from Malum prohibitum which simply means wrongs that are prohibited, i.e. not necessarily inherently immoral or hurtful, but only wrong by statute, such as parking violations, or smuggling, or selling products ...

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The Bolivian Navy does exist even though the country has been landlocked for almost 150 years. Bolivia has large rivers that are tributaries to the Amazon, these are patrolled to prevent smuggling and drug trafficking. There is also a Bolivian Naval prescence on Lake Titicaca, the highest (altitude wise) navegable lake in the world. The Bolivian Navy takes part in many parades and government functions, but none more so than the Dia Del Mar (day of the sea) in which Bolivia, each year, asks for the coast taken from them by Chile

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Cam (also "CAM") is a specific type or method of motion picture piracy. Unlike the more common DVD rip or screener types of bootleg recording which involves the unauthorized duplication of official media, "cam" versions are original clandestine recordings made in movie theaters. Typically, the person pirating will smuggle a compact digital camcorder into the theater by hiding it in their clothing or in a bag such as a purse or backpack. For this reason, some establishments now bar customers from carrying bags or other container ...

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Chiang Rai (Thai เชียงราย) is the most northern province (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from east clockwise) Phayao, Lampang and Chiang Mai. In the north it borders Laos and Myanmar. Chiang Rai Province - Geography. The average elevation of the province is 580 m. The north of the province belongs to the so-called Golden Triangle, at which the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar converge - an area which was very unsafe because of the drug smuggling across t ...

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Smuggling tunnels connect Egypt and the Gaza Strip, bypassing the international border established by the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. The tunnels pass under the "Philadelphi buffer zone" (also called "Philadelphi Route" ציר פילדלפי in Hebrew)—an area given to Israeli military control in the Oslo accords in order to secure the border with Egypt. The tunnels connect the Egyptian town of Rafah with the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah. These tunnels are used to smuggle people, including terrorists and prostitutes, and a wide ...

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Trafficking in human beings, sometimes called human trafficking, or sex trafficking (as the majority of victims are women or children forced into prostitution) is not the same as people smuggling. A smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is free; the trafficking victim is enslaved. Victims do not agree to be trafficked: they are tricked, lured by false promises, or forced into it. Traffickers use coercive tactics including deception, fraud, intim ...

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Trafficking in human beings, sometimes called human trafficking, or sex trafficking (as the majority of victims are women or children forced into prostitution) is not the same as people smuggling. A smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is free; the trafficking victim is enslaved. Victims do not agree to be trafficked: they are tricked, lured by false promises, or forced into it. Traffickers use coercive tactics including deception, fraud, intim ...

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The flat, almost empty landscape made for a smuggler's paradise throughout the 17th, 18th and into the 19th centuries. The traffic was two-way, since wool was also smuggled to the Continent. The main website has more details. The Victorians made smugglers into romantic anti-heroes; in truth they were unscrupulous villains. The two main gangs on the Marsh were the Owlers and the Blues. ...

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