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| Pskov native returns home after escaping slavery in Buinaksk |
| 2021-10-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Rantburg posted a feature story on slavery in the Caucusus September 9th. You can read it here. [KavkazUzel] Vladislav Platonenko, who managed to escape from labor slavery in Buinaksk, returned to the Pskov region and intends to complain to the police about torture at a brick factory. The police in Dagestan promised to help with checking the plant where Platonenko worked, the Alternative anti-slavery movement reported. As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on September 19 the "Alternative" movement published the story of Vladislav Platonenko, a native of the Pskov region, who was in labor slavery for a year at a brick factory in Buinaksk. Platonenko came to Moscow to look for work, but at the station he was offered a job in Dagestan. Finding himself undocumented in labor slavery, Vladislav was beaten and abused, after which he developed memory problems. The man managed to escape together with a resident of Ryazan. In Ryazan, Platonenko turned to the police, but he was advised to go home and make documents. Arriving in Moscow, he lived on the street for four days until he was given the contacts of "Alternative", activists said, announcing an inspection of the brick factory, which Platonenko told about. Vladislav Platonenko told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that he returned home and now lives in the Pskov region with his mother and is applying for a new passport. "In Ryazan, I turned to the police, but they said: make a passport at the place of registration. Now documents are being processed in the Pskov region, the passport will be ready within a month. Health is better, memory is restored. I will receive documents, restore my health, I will think about work," said Platonenko. He clarified that during his stay at the brick factory in Buinaksk he was not paid, he was only given food. According to him, about 20 forced laborers worked at this plant, besides him. "As soon as I get a passport, I will write a statement to the police about torture. In Ryazan, the police told me earlier that they could not accept the application without a passport," Vladislav Platonenko explained. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan promised to provide "Alternative" assistance in checking the plant where Vladislav Platonenko worked, the head of the "Alternative" movement Oleg Melnikov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, having found it difficult to specify the timing of the check. Since Vladislav had clear signs of bodily torture, the activists "decided to try to open a criminal case," he explained. "Fortunately, there are few such factories left in Dagestan, the problem is more in Kalmykia and the Stavropol Territory," said Oleg Melnikov. We will remind, on September 4 it became known that a criminal case of a 30-year-old owner of a livestock camp in Kalmykia, accused of illegal imprisonment of a person , was transferred to the court . According to investigators, the accused kept the employee by force, took away his passport and phone, and did not pay his salary. When the victim tried to escape, he was caught up and severely beaten, after which he was thrown into the steppe. From 2019 to September 2021, two criminal cases were considered in the courts of Kalmykia under the article on illegal imprisonment, the press service of the Supreme Court of Kalmykia told the "Caucasian Knot" on September 16. Only those who declare themselves a forced laborer can help to get out of labor slavery, Oleg Melnikov told the "Caucasian Knot" in January 2020 after the release of three people in Dagestan. There are criminal articles for slave labor, but they practically do not work, the lawyer Abusupyan Gaitayev confirmed then. In Dagestan, most of the reported cases of forced labor are related to factories producing building materials. Slaves in Dagestan are a cheap labor force that is lured to the Caucasus mainly by fraudulent means. In fact, they are goods that can be bought and sold, says the "Caucasian Knot" statement " |
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