"Alternative" announces release of two Astrakhan residents from labour slavery

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has organized a check on the message of the Alternative movement about the illegal deprivation of liberty of two residents of Astrakhan.

"According to the information posted on the Internet, unidentified persons illegally kept 45-year-old Valery and 39-year-old Oleg at a cattle-breeding farm in the village of Avtoury in the Shali District and forced them to work for free," reports the message posted on the website of the Prosecutor's Office on July 6.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that activists of the "Alternative" movement are engaged in the liberation of people from the labour slavery.

According to members of the "Alternative", a movement against slavery, on July 1, they got a message that two persons were kept as slaves at a cattle-breeding farm in the village of Avtoury. The message was sent by one of the victims. "Please help me, they keep me illegally. I stay in the Chechen republic, in the village of Avtoury. They do not let me go," stated the message as quoted on July 6 by the movement "Alternative" on its page in the social network "VKontakte".

Members of the movement "Alternative" voiced the information that Valery came to the village of Avtoury about a month ago after near the railway station in Astrakhan, unidentified people promised to employ him. According to the movement "Alternative", Oleg stayed in Chechnya since December 2016, after, near the railway station, he was also offered work in the Astrakhan Region, but instead was brought to Chechnya.

Both men were released and sent to Astrakhan by a volunteer of the movement "Alternative" from Grozny, the message reports.

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