[6] Official data for Vitebsk, Minsk, Grodno and Mogilev provinces in 1889 showed there were 50 brothels with 326 prostitutes working in them.
[7] According to Ministry of Internal Affairs official 2010 figures, there were 1,930[8] women involved in prostitution in Belarus, roughly 637[8] of them were in Minsk.
Belarusian victims are primarily subjected to trafficking in Russia and Belarus, as well as in Poland, Turkey, and other countries in Eurasia and the Middle East.
Some Belarusian women travelling for foreign employment in the adult entertainment and hotel industries are subjected to sex trafficking.
[6] Article 181 of the criminal code prohibits both sex and labour trafficking and prescribes penalties ranging from five to 15 years imprisonment in addition to the forfeiture of offenders’ assets.