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UPDATE: Finnish Lawmakers Pass Law Criminalising Purchasing of Sex

21.6.2006 at 11:19

(Adds detail, amends first paragraph.)

Finland's Parliament on Wednesday enacted into law a bill that will make the purchasing of sexual services a crime in circumstances involving procuring or trade in human beings. A proposal to reject the bill was voted down 158-15 with four MPs abstaining.

First-time offenders will face six months in prison.

Some of the opponents of the law preferred a blanket criminalisation of the purchasing of sex and a few wanted to criminalise the sale of sexual services too.

Parliament approved the contents of the bill in a vote last week.

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