MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities have detained hundreds of migrant workers in Sochi, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, and have held many of them in "arbitrary and inhuman conditions", Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
Many of those detained in a wave of raids on work sites, homes and public places since early September helped build venues or infrastructure for the Games being held in the Black Sea resort city in February, the advocacy group said.
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