Two Saskatchewan restaurant operators convicted of human trafficking are awaiting sentencing in what is believed to be the province’s first written decision involving employment-related trafficking.
Provincial Court Judge Miguel Martinez found Sohel Haider, 55, and Mohammed Masum, 44, guilty of human trafficking in a decision released Aug. 7. Masum was also convicted of three counts of sexual assault.
The victim, a temporary foreign worker from Bangladesh, is identified in court documents only as S.K., due to a publication ban.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between Aug. 1, 2022, and March 31, 2023, while S.K. worked at restaurants in the towns of Gull Lake, Elrose, and Tisdale….