Thirteen women from the Philippines have been sentenced to four years in prison in Cambodia for acting as surrogate mothers for foreign clients. Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Cambodia, where it falls under a human trafficking law.
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00:00Cambodia has sentenced 13 women from the Philippines to prison for acting as illegal surrogate
00:05mothers for foreign clients.
00:08The 13 pregnant women were arrested alongside 24 others from the Philippines and Vietnam.
00:14Each of the pregnant women was sentenced to four years in prison, while the others who
00:19were not pregnant were deported.
00:22Commercial surrogacy is banned in Cambodia and falls under its human trafficking law.
00:28Cambodian authorities have previously said the women themselves are the victims of human
00:32trafficking.