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| 'Alternativa' announced the release of a person from labor slavery in Dagestan |
| 2023-05-29 |
| Driect Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Sergei Busygin was forced to work for free at a brick factory near Kaspiysk for several years, the Alternativa movement reported. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the "Alternative" anti-slavery movement has repeatedly reported cases of people being freed from labor slavery in the North Caucasus and South Federal Districts. So, in May 2022, Alternativa announced the rescue from labor slavery of a resident of Budyonnovsk, who was forcibly kept on a farm in the Stavropol Territory. "Recruiters" are looking for potential employees at the railway stations of Moscow, Saratov and other large cities, most often the victims of slave traders are people from the provinces who come to large cities to earn money, says the "Caucasian Knot" report "Slavery in the North Caucasus." Sergei Busygin, born in 1966, ended up in labor slavery in Dagestan, the Alternativa movement reported on the evening of May 27. "Unfortunately, the story of a man is a typical case of falling into labor slavery. In 2016, a man was recruited on the square of three railway stations in Moscow. Sergei was offered a job, promised good conditions, to which he agreed. As a result, Sergei ended up at a brick factory nearby from the city of Kaspiysk, Republic of Dagestan," the publication on the movement's telegram channel says. After 2018, the "employment structure" of slaves in Dagestan changed: if earlier they mainly worked at brick factories , now they work at agricultural enterprises, Oleg Melnikov, head of the "Alternative" told the "Caucasian Knot" in October 2021. "The number of handicraft enterprises, primarily brick factories, has decreased in Dagestan, the federal authorities are trying to restore order in this area," he said. Sergey Busygin worked at the brick factory for several years. “According to Sergei, his documents were taken away from him almost immediately, his salary was not paid, but instead he was forced to work off a debt that arose on its own, he was periodically beaten, and in order to avoid thoughts of escaping, he was threatened with connections in law enforcement agencies. Conditions work and living there were so terrible that Sergei received frostbite on his legs. After that, he ended up in the hospital, where his fingers were amputated," the activists said. The movement was informed about the situation of Sergey Busygin by a volunteer who learned about his stay in the hospital. “Now Sergey is completely safe and everything is fine with him. After the process of restoring documents is completed, we will send Sergey to a shelter where he can stay for as long as he needs to fully recover,” the publication says. A new volunteer in the North Caucasus played a key role in Busygin's release, Alternativa's coordinator Alexei Nikitin said. “Now he is helping Sergei restore his documents, he even tried to return his passport from the owner of the brick factory, but was expectedly refused. Now the man remains in the hospital, in the narcological department, but not because he has problems with addictions, they just accepted him there and could leave him for time, like in a shelter," Kavkaz.Realii quotes him today*. Recall that labor slavery is a problem characteristic of all of Russia , including in the south of the country, Oleg Melnikov said in May 2019. "In Kalmykia, we met about 20 such cases, in Dagestan - a little more, in Chechnya - a little less, in Ingushetia there were 5-7 cases, in the Krasnodar Territory - about 40, in the Rostov Region - somewhere around 20-30," he said. Help to get out of labor slavery is possible only for those who themselves declare that they are a forced laborer, Oleg Melnikov said in January 2020, after the release of three people in Dagestan. There are criminal articles for slave labor, but they practically do not work, then the lawyer Abusupyan Gaitaev confirmed. |
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