Liberia, June 3 -- Ten of the 11 people accused in what prosecutors and anti-trafficking experts describe as Liberia's largest human trafficking case are scheduled to go on trial Wednesday, weeks after a Montserrado County grand jury indicted them over the alleged trafficking and exploitation of 57 poor people from seven of Liberia's 15 counties.

The trial comes nine months after the victims filed complaints with authorities and three months after FrontPage Africa/New Narratives exposed victims' allegations that Bestman Juah, a public defender, was paying bribes to police and prosecutors on behalf of the accused traffickers to protect them. "No one can carry us to the law," victims said the defendants told them. "We own the government."...