BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- A total of 30 suspects were taken into custody by police in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in a joint raid against human-trafficking and forced prostitution, the Ministry of Public Security said Monday.

Among them, 26 are from the island and four from the mainland, said a ministry statement.

Police in southeast China's Fujian province and their counterparts across the Taiwan Strait jointly conducted the operation at 11 a.m. Monday and rescued nine victims, the statement said.

It revealed that the criminal rings were found to have deceived mainland women to enter the island for forced marriages and then compelled them into prostitution.

The mainland police opened investigations shortly after Taiwanese immigration authorities informed them of such activities in February, the statement said.

The joint operation marked the first police cooperation in fighting human trafficking across the Strait since the establishment of a mutual assistance mechanism in 2009, it added. Enditem

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