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Article: Ukrainian sex slaves freed in Turkey thanks to special telephone hotline
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
- Article date:
- August 28, 2005
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Ukrainian Weekly, The
08-28-2005
GENEVA - Five Ukrainian women who were tortured and imprisoned in a
basement by sex traffickers in Turkey were freed thanks to a special
telephone hotline, the International Organization for Migration reported on
August 5, according to Agence France-Presse.
The women - one of whom was held for six years - were set to return to
Ukraine after being rescued by Turkish police following a call to the "157"
hotline, which is run by the IOM, a Geneva-based organization. "This case
is one of the worst instances of trafficking we have documented in Turkey,"
said IOM official Marielle Sander Lindstrom.
The women were forced into prostitution, were tortured with boiling oil ...
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