Pravda reported that a formerly homeless man escaped slave owners who had been holding him in a barn, forcing him to work with other slaves on a farm. Authorities shadowed the man until he was caught by his pursuers at a bus stop, and then followed them all back to the farm to discover this:
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Russian police discover homeless people enslaved
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2008 Trafficking in Persons report released
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The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons released its 8th annual Trafficking in Persons Report last week.
Since the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed and the TIP office was created, it has annually ranked all the countries in the world (besides the U.S., quite conspicuously) on a four-tier system that [...]
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