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| Slaves from Dagestan question the effectiveness of the police |
| 2023-06-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Mukhamet Khudaiberdin and Mikhail Giska, who were forced to work free of charge at a construction site in the Kayakent region, did not file a complaint with the police after their release, a representative of the Alternative movement said. Khudaiberdin explained that he was afraid of revenge from the owners of the business. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the "Alternative" anti-slavery movement has repeatedly reported on cases of liberation of people from labor slavery in the North Caucasus Federal District and the South Federal District. So, on June 13, it became known about the release of two men, Mukhamet Khudaiberdin and Mikhail Giska, who were forced to work for free at a construction site in the Kayakent region of Dagestan. "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, the "Caucasian Knot" report "Slavery in the North Caucasus" says . Mukhamet Khudaiberdin and Mikhail Giska have not yet applied to the police on the fact of labor slavery, Aleksey Nikitin, a representative of the "Alternative" movement, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent . "We really hope that they will do it soon," he said. In his opinion, such stories should be in the center of attention of the security forces so that they do not repeat themselves in the future. Mukhamet Khudaiberdin said that he still fears for his safety. “Look, I’m far from them now, but I know what kind of connections they have, and that if they want, they will find me. Therefore, I’m afraid to write a statement against them. What will it give? I am alone, and there are many of them. testimonies, and everyone else will say that they worked and received money, that they were good, they did not violate the law. I am afraid that something will happen to me if I say a word against them," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The man is not sure that the perpetrators can be punished. "I doubt it. They will be able to defend themselves in various ways and go unpunished. Now the main thing is that Mikhail and I are free, we are where we ourselves wanted, we do what we ourselves wanted. This is the most important thing. I am with my daughter, I eat good meat. They fed me bad food for two years, you can say I didn’t eat anything normal, I just worked all day long. Living conditions were normal, but the food is terrible. Mikhail and I weren’t paid at all, a couple of times 3, 5 thousand everything," he recalls. According to Mukhamet, there were Uzbeks with him, but they were not in labor slavery. “There were a lot of them, but they all had documents, contracts, patents, they were paid and they were fed normally. Only Mikhail and I weren’t paid. Do you know how many cottages we built for them, how many worked in greenhouses? And nothing in return didn't get it," he said. His daughter, Lilac, hopes that her father will nevertheless decide and write a statement. "Maybe this will lead to the fact that the perpetrators will be punished, and there will be no more such cases. I have been looking for my father for two years. The police were looking for him, but to no avail, they said that there was no chance. But I did not despair and turned to various organizations" - she told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to her, for some reason she was sure that her father was in labor slavery. “I felt it, I watched videos on social networks about labor slavery, went to different factories, looked for him. When he called me and said that he was in Dagestan, I immediately turned to the Alternative movement, and the very next day my father was at large. This is some kind of miracle," recalls Lilac.  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan that they had not received statements on the fact of labor slavery. "We have no such appeals from the citizen you mentioned," the department said. Labor slavery is a problem that is typical for all of Russia , including in the south of the country, Oleg Melnikov, head of the Alternative movement, 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. It is possible to help get out of labor slavery only to 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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