Russian police free 15 child slaves

Russian police have reportedly exposed a sweatshop in the Moscow region, where 15 Kyrgyzstan children under the age of 18 were kept as slave laborers.

The illegal workshop was forcing labor on underfed children as young as 11, while some of the children were also mistreated, RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday.

"An illegal sewing workshop was discovered at the site of a factory in the town of Noguinsk. Among the workers, were minors from Kyrgyzstan," the police said.

"No salaries had been paid to the minors, they had no days off. These underage slaves were fed twice daily with a ration of break and mayonnaise."

A Kyrgyz national was in charge of luring the children's parents with the promise of 5,000 rubles (168 dollars) per month, provided they allowed the children to be taken abroad. He would also guarantee the children would have good living conditions and two days off per week.

The criminal organization would lock up the children in factories' facilities upon arrival in Russia.

With hundreds of thousands of migrants smuggled into Russia each year from Kyrgyzstan and other ex-Soviet republics, slave trafficking is growing as profitable as the drug trade.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114823§ionid=351020602.