A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 80 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted promising them food, shelter, employment and protection. Once the traffickers have gained the women’s confidence, the women are lured to an apartment, confined and then sold to local men. The buyers often lock the women in the house, tie them up, take away their clothing to prevent them from escaping the forced relationship. In many cases, the women are also physically abused and raped by their buyers. Some women are also trafficked into the sex industry in Jinlin Province and other parts of the PRC. They are forced to prostitute themselves in brothels, which are often disguised as karaoke bars. Since they fear deportation to and punishment in the DPRK, the women are effectively denied access to the protection of the Chinese authorities. Human traffickers are well aware of this fact and use it to subdue their victims by threatening to report them to the Chinese authorities if they resist. The situation is particularly dire for women who have become pregnant as a result of sexual exploitation in forced marriages or the sex industry and are then deported. Pregnant women who the DPRK authorities suspect of being impregnated by Chinese men are often subjected to particularly harsh treatment and also torture. Their pregnancies are considered evidence of indecent sexual relations with foreigners and a betrayal of the home country. In the past, there have also been reports about cases in which women were forced to have abortions or newly born infants were murdered. Government Response