Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
 Friday


Armenian citizen subjected to labour exploitation in Georgia's
Azerbaijani populated Soghanlugh village



YEREVAN, AUGUST 11, ARMENPRESS.A criminal case has been initiated at
the General Investigation Department of the Special Investigation
Service of the Republic of Armenia for subjecting an Armenian citizen
to labour exploitation in Georgia's Azerbaijani populated Soghanlugh
village.

As "Armenpress" was informed from the press service of
theInvestigative Committee of Armenia, as a result of media monitoring
a number of publications have been recorded on the labour exploitation
of an Armenian citizen in the Azerbaijani populated village in
Georgia.

According to those publications, on July 28, 2017 a representative of
the Armenian MFA announced at a press conference that the Armenian man
was kept like a slave for years in an Azerbaijani populated village in
Georgia and was subjected to labour exploitation during those years.
Fortunatelly, it has been possible to take him back to Armenia. To
check the mentioned information the Deputy Chairman of
theInvestigative Committee of Armenia,Head of the SpecialInvestigation
ServiceVahagn Harutyunyan tasked to prepare materials. As a result, it
was found out that in 2003 the Armenian citizen left for Georgia
hoping to find a job, where he asked the driver of a random car to
help him in finding a job. The mentioned person took him to the
Azerbaijani populated village in Georgia, where the members of an
Azerbaijani family, taking advantage of his vulnarable situation
conditioned by being unfamiliar tothe area, kept in in in something
like slavery till May 7, 2017 making him to work without
anyremuneration in their land and the lands of their neighbors, while
he lived in themansard of the house sleeping on cardboard boxes.

A criminal case was initiated at the General Investigation Department
of the Special Investigation Service of Armenia on August 10.

Preliminary investigation is underway.