GENEVA (Reuters) - Russian coastguards have freed two dozen Ukrainian fisherman who had been forced to work in slave-like conditions on a Russian vessel poaching crab in the North Pacific, an international aid agency said on Friday.
The coastguards, on patrol off Eastern Russia, impounded the boat near Sakhalin Island just before Christmas, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
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