Seven men have been charged over child sexual exploitation in Bristol.
The men were charged with more than 40 offences against 11 teenage victims as part of an investigation into group-based child sexual exploitation in Bristol, Avon and Somerset Police said.
The force added that the victims were in their mid to late teens when the offences took place between 2022 and 2025.
The alleged offenders include two Syrians, one Iranian and two British men. It follows an investigation which began in November 2023 when concerns were raised about the sexual exploitation of a teenage girl.
Mohamed Arafe and Hussain Bashar, who are both 19, Mohammed Kurdi and Wadie Sharaf, both 21, and Sina Omari, 20, are all from Bristol.
They will appear at the city’s magistrates’ court on Wednesday morning alongside two others, aged 19 and 26, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The unnamed 19-year-old has been charged with four rapes, arranging the sexual exploitation of a child and making indecent images, police said. The 26-year-old has been charged with two rapes and a sexual assault.
Omari, an Iranian, has been charged with two counts of rape, as well as a number of counts of facilitating and causing the sexual exploitation of a child and making indecent images.
Sharaf, who is Syrian, has been charged with one count of rape, an attempted rape and three counts of sexual assault.
Bashar, who is British but defines his ethnicity as “any other”, has been charged with rape.
Kurdi, who is also British but of Arab ethnicity, has been charged with two counts of rape and sexually exploiting a child.
Arafe, who is Syrian, has been charged with five counts of arranging the exploitation of a child, one count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child and one count of sexual assault.
He, Omari and Kurdi have also been charged with supplying ecstasy.
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