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“Yuzhnyi Kazakhstan” # 50 (18,278), 20/04/2007
M. Limarenko

At work - slavery


   For half a year a 44-year-old resident of Khorezm, who had arrived in Shymkent to earn money, worked as a slave.
   In the past, the man was an engineer, but his life in Kazakhstan was not a good life. People lose their work, and then venture to try their luck in the neighboring countries. On the border they are issued a migration card, and everything would be fine if it were not for casual interactions at the railway station. Anonymous people promised to make him a security guard at a construction site and to obtain the necessary documents, and give him a salary of 15 thousand KZT. For six months the employee only received 11 thousand. Without documents and means of livelihood, he lived in shelter at the construction site where the workers relaxed and played billiards. He was served with all the hard work, and had not received even a hot soup plate. Incidentally, he came across a newspaper, where the Legal Center for Women's Initiatives “Sana Sezim” advertised their free legal assistance to migrant workers. He called.
   “In fact, there are many forms of forced labor on migrants, many of whom are illegal,” the director of “Sana Sezim”, H. Abysheva said, “Often violations of human rights and freedoms of these people occur and this has led to the project to provide legal assistance to migrant workers in our area, with the financial support of the “Open Society” Institute.”
   Now Khorezm, who was a slave, along with “Sana Sezim” the victim of forced slavery went to representatives of law enforcement. The man wrote a statement in UBOP about them not paying wages, and the migration police dealt with the situation.