"Alternative" reports on release of Anapa resident from labour slavery

Nikolai Antonov, a resident of Anapa, returned home after five months of slave labour at a cattle farm in Chechnya.

According to the "Alternative", a movement to combat slave labour, Nikolai Antonov disappeared when in the spring of 2016 he came from Anapa to his relatives in Saratov.

"Nikolai did not contact his relatives until late October, when he informed them that he found himself in Chechnya, in the area of the village of Korneevo. He said that he was engaged in grazing cattle. His masters did not pay money to him, seized his passport and did not let him go home. The man could not explain how he got there. He remembered only drinking alcoholic beverages with strangers at the railway station in Saratov," reports the website of the movement "Alternative".

It is also noted that Alexander, a relative of the kidnapped man, "tried himself to rescue Nikolai from labour slavery, but when contacted by phone, the farm owner refused to let Nikolai go home." After that, the relative of Nikolai Antonov appealed to the movement "Alternative".

According to the activists, law enforcers visited the cattle farm in the village of Korneevo in the Naur District of Chechnya, on the border with the Stavropol Territory. They took Nikolai Antonov from the farm and brought him to activist Lechi Abakarov.

The movement "Alternative" reports that according to Nikolai Antonov, the farm owner "bought him for 25,000 roubles" and that "in Saratov, near the railway station, a grouping of recruiters is for a long time engaged in kidnapping people."

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