The programme entitled: "Tracing one crime" spoke about the human trafficking situation in the central Uzbek region of Samarkand, detailed criminal cases launched in the region over human trafficking and told the stories of some people from the region’s rural areas, who fell victim to human traffickers.

Despite large-scale propagation campaigns being carried out in the region against human trafficking, "the number of crimes related to human trafficking is increasing year by year in the town of Samarkand, especially, women are being trafficked, by deceit, into the UAE, Thailand, Turkey, Malaysia, Russia and Kazakhstan," the programme said.

Over video of young women in the streets, the programme said that Shahnoza Saidmurodova was detained on 11 January 2008 in the region while attempting to illegally take some minor girls to Dubai, the programme said. Another women from the region, Gulbahor Pardayeva, also trafficked three young women into Dubai in August-September 2008 promising them US$1,200- US$1,500 per month, the programme said.

"She took the young women’s passports away and forced them into prostitution. She tortured those women who did not obey and handed them over to her accomplices," the TV said. It also showed a young woman, who fell victim to Pardayeva, telling how she was forced into prostitution over six months and finally gave herself in to the police and returned to Uzbekistan.

The programme also disapproved of the women, who illegally travelled abroad to work, and stressed that any woman could easily find jobs in Uzbekistan.

It went on to detail the case of Nuriddin Ergashev, a resident of the region’s Payariq District, who had "trafficked his 50 fellow countrymen into Kazakhstan", and eventually "sentenced to eight years in prison". The programme showed some rural men, who were tricked by Ergashev, telling about harsh working and living conditions as they became victims of forced labour with their passports taken away in Kazakhstan’s Astana city.

The programme also said that Jamila Raimqulova, a resident of the town of Samarkand, had been given a three-year suspended sentence for trafficking some disabled people into Kazakhstan, where they were forced to begging. Raimqulova used the money received from begging for her own needs, the programme said.

It also showed a representative from the regional prosecutor’s office as saying that his agency has held several meetings at various organizations and in localities to warn people of falling victim to human trafficking. He also added that they were dealing with 16 people from the region who had been deported from foreign countries.

In conclusion, the programme called on the viewers to seek jobs in Uzbekistan and to be vigilant.