59 Noor Wai spent four months in a human-trafficking camp in Thailand. When Noor Wai’s family learned of her situation, they contacted “Abdul,” 22, a Rohingya man who fled Myanmar earlier and had been living in Malaysia since 2013. Fortify Rights spoke to Abdul about Noor Wai before he arranged for her release. He said: “She is from near my home. Her parents called me to help her. I have been [in Malaysia for] one year. I spoke with the girl about four or five times. She cries but doesn’t say much. When they call, the dallals are right there with her.”218 On September 30, 2014, Fortify Rights recorded a phone call between Abdul and a human trafficker holding Noor Wai captive.219 At one point, Noor Wai was put on the phone for proof-of-life: “Will you come tomorrow with the money?” she asked before the trafficker abruptly took back the phone.220 Noor Wai identified one of her captors as a Rohingya man and described how he threatened to sell her if Abdul did not pay. She said: [Name redacted] is a dallal and [Abdul] called him and said he would give money to him, and so [name redacted] brought me here [to Malaysia]. When [Abdul] was unable to pay [immediately], [name redacted] said to me, “He will not rescue you, he will not pay money for you, so I will sell you to others.” He knows the men who buy the women, and he said he would sell me to them . . . Many people called him for the girls. [The traffickers] don’t care about anything. They say, “We want money,” and if someone pays money, we would have to go to them. They don’t care about us. In the Thailand camp, they said the same thing many times. “If you don’t pay, I will sell you here [in Thailand] or sell you in Malaysia.”221 Noor Wai spent 11 days confined to a human-trafficking house in Malaysia awaiting the payment by Abdul. On September 30, 2014, Abdul transferred 3,500 Malaysian Ringgit (US$1,000) to the human traffickers holding Noor Wai. The traffickers instructed him to travel to a location in Butterworth in Penang State, Malaysia and await instructions. The traffickers led Abdul from location to location, eventually concluding the journey at a Maybank in Butterworth, where­—under cover of darkness—a car quickly dropped off Noor Wai and sped away. Fortify Rights met with Noor Wai in Penang shortly after the traffickers released her. She told Fortify Rights privately that she was comfortable to stay with Abdul. She said she had known Abdul for many years and felt safe; however, she said she had no intention of marrying him. Weeks later, the two were married. “Naeem” a Rohingya man in his 20s similarly described how he paid traffickers to release a Rohingya woman from a human-trafficking camp in order to marry her. He said: I have been married for three months. Someone from my family called me and asked me if I wanted to marry a girl who is in Penang [in Malaysia]. “She is unable to pay and if you bring her to you, you can marry her,” they said. I paid 6,000 Malaysian Ringgit (US$1,720) for her. It was in July [2014].222 218 Fortify Rights interview with “#67, Penang State, Malaysia, September 28, 2014. 219 Fortify Rights, transcript of recorded telephone call between “Abdul” and human trafficker, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 30, 2014. 220 The speakers on the call continued: Abdul: “I will come with the money tomorrow.” Trafficker: “Why don’t you come today?” Abdul: “I don’t have the money in hand. If I had the money, I would come now.” Trafficker: “You told me before you already had the money, what happened with that money?” Abdul: “I came with money many times before to you, but you didn’t bring her. We are very close to our Eid festival [October 6], so I had to send money to my home.” Ibid. 221 Fortify Rights interview with #69, Penang State, Malaysia, October 1, 2014. 222 Fortify Rights interview with #59, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 28, 2014.