The Phnom Penh Post
EIGHT migrants who said they were forced to work like “slaves” on a Malaysian fishing vessel were returned to Cambodia Saturday after spending five months in immigration detention, officials and rights groups said.
The migrants reported that they had each been held as virtual servants on the vessel for between one and three years before making a harrowing escape last December. Their stories are part of what rights groups say is an alarming trend of male migrant workers leaving the country in search of job opportunities, only to find themselves marooned on foreign fishing vessels with few resources and little chance of escape.
The migrants reported that they had each been held as virtual servants on the vessel for between one and three years before making a harrowing escape last December. Their stories are part of what rights groups say is an alarming trend of male migrant workers leaving the country in search of job opportunities, only to find themselves marooned on foreign fishing vessels with few resources and little chance of escape.
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