Murmansk resident reports to police about spending 18 years in slavery in Dagestan

On September 26, in the Volgograd Region, policemen removed a 43-year-old man without any ID from the bus route "Makhachkala-Moscow". The detainee claims that he spent the past 18 years in slavery in Dagestan, where his passport was taken away from him. After the man gave his explanations to law enforcers, they released him, and he went to Moscow by hitchhiking. This was reported by the volunteer organization "Alternative".

The detainee, who identified himself as Sergey Khlivny, said that in 1996, he arrived in Makhachkala to earn money. As soon as he got off his bus, unidentified persons took away all his documents and forced him to work at a brick factory located in the village of Petropavlovskoe. The man claimed that he received only food and old clothes for his work and that he was kept locked up.

Several months later, he tried to escape. However, he was caught and forced to graze cattle. He once again made an attempt to escape; however, he was caught again, the "Bloknot. Volgograd" reports.

The Murmansk resident was found in Dagestan by members of the volunteer organization "Alternative". They managed to find the man in one of the private houses in the village of Kamysh-Kutan. Alexei Nikitin, a member of the volunteer organization, decided to take the man from Dagestan by bus.

According to the volunteer organization "Alternative", relatives of Sergey have already identified him from a photo, and a Sergey's brother left Murmansk for Moscow.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.