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15 Kyrgyz child slave laborers freed from factory near Moscow

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Police have released 15 Kyrgyz minors who had been used as slave laborers at a factory in Noginsk near Moscow, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

Police have released 15 Kyrgyz minors who had been used as slave laborers at a factory in Noginsk near Moscow, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

"An illegal clothes factory has been discovered in the compound of an industrial facility in Noginsk, where citizens of Kyrgyzstan under the age of 18 were used as workers," police said in a statement.

"The children had their documents taken away and lived in impoverished conditions under day-and-night guard," police said. "They were forced to work at night."

The children were not paid, and were given no free time. "The children were given food twice a day, mainly bread and mayonnaise. They were not provided with medical care, and were punished for disobeying orders or refusing to work," the statement said.

Police said the children aged between 11 and 17 were recruited among poor families in the impoverished ex-Soviet Central Asian state by a Kyrgyz national.

The parents were told their children would receive 5,000 rubles (about $170) a month, have three meals a day, and be provided with appropriate living conditions.

The children have been taken to a police station, were they have undergone medical examinations and been questioned.

Several illegal migrants from Kyrgyzstan and one of those who guarded the children were arrested at the factory.

Officials from Kyrgyzstan's consular department in Moscow have left for Noginsk.

MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) 

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