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Two years in slavery

«Rabat» №19, 13.05.2009

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The case of real slavery was revealed by the staff of NGO “Sana Sezim”. They received the data that the citizen of Uzbekistan is working in one of our local citizen’s resident. Alisher’s story is quite typical. According to him he came to Kazakhstan on May of 2007. He crossed the board by the help of mediator who promised a job and a solid payment: 300000-400000 soums per month. At that time except Alisher 100 more men had been recruited for the job in the tobacco fields. After crossing the border Alisher was handed to the employer by the woman, intermediary look after the expenses on the crossing the border saying that he will take it from the future payment of employee. The future slavery engaged in tobacco fields like that where he had worked for 7 month. The condition in which he lived was terrible.  During his work he didn’t receive any money, all his salary was taken by intermediary. When the season was over, he was sent to other employer and he worked there in construction. Then he was again sent to other employer. In general, Uzbek citizen were sent “from hand to hand”, and nobody of his new employer paid him salary by cash. Alisher even doesn’t know in whose “kind “hands were left his documents.At his last work plays the victim had grazed the cattle for 11 months. If not the timely help of the staff of NGO “Sana Sezim”, who turned to the police department, victims would still be in mountains.