August 10, 2012
By Oxana Vozhdaeva
BBC Russian.com
Workers showed the BBC skin rashes they said were the result of poor hygieneThe BBC has found disturbing evidence of Vietnamese textile workers being kept in slave-like conditions at a Vietnamese-run factory in Russia.
Staff at Vinastar, a medium-sized business in the village of Savino south-east of Moscow, said they were being forced to work up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week.
They said they were poorly fed, beaten up regularly and forbidden to leave the factory premises.
“I have been working here for 18 months,” said one of the factory workers, Nguyen Thi Bich Tuyen.
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