Russian Police Decide Not To Press Charges Against Factory Owners Who Kept Vietnamese Immigrants As ‘Slaves’

By Palash Ghosh | August 24 2012 3:36 PM

Russian police have decided not to press charges against the owners of a Moscow-area textile factory who had allegedly been keeping illegal Vietnamese immigrant workers at the plant as "slaves.”

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However, the factory bosses will have to pay an administrative fine.

BBC reported the employees were poorly fed, worked 18 hours a day every day, suffered regular beatings, and were prevented from ever leaving the factory premises, located in the village of Savino, southeast of Moscow.

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