A Primorye resident who had been enslaved was rescued from a labor camp in the Amur Region.
In the Amur Region, a criminal case has been opened against a father and son, aged 67 and 36, who used slave labor at a gold mining site two kilometers from the village of Yasny in the Zeisky District.
They are by force held A 47-year-old resident of Primorsky Krai had his documents confiscated, was forced to work, and was beaten. He was held in these conditions from April 17 to May 24, 2025.
Both suspects have been remanded in pretrial detention pending investigation. They face up to 10 years in prison.
How to counted To be precise, over the past 15 years, 880 cases of modern slavery have been recorded, but officially, only 53. This year alone,NotMoscow» Wrote about the case in Kemerovo, where an entire family of slave owners held eight residents of Novokuznetsk in captivity for 13 years. A similar case was fixed and on a farm in Yakutia.
Photo: Investigative Committee for the Amur Region.