Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Kanye West addresses the fallout over his slavery comments on his new track “Wouldn’t Leave.” He says Kim Kardashian West screamed at him and thought they could lose everything. West claims in the song that he said she could leave him, but she wouldn’t. Kanye West’s new album “Ye” includes personal […]
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“Like slavery”: Rehab patients forced into unpaid labor to cover “treatment”
Enlarge / A heroin addict at a rehab house. (credit: Getty | AFP) If you caught John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight this past Sunday, you saw a lengthy segment detailing the atrocities of the rehabilitation industry. As Oliver pointed out, it’s largely an unregulated, unstandardized market rife with bad actors, scams, and bunkum that offers […]
Forgotten in hell: Half of abducted Iraqi Yazidi girls remain in ISIS captivity & sex slavery
15yo Nadi could barely speak when RT crew met her just a few hours after she was bought out after years of slavery for $ 2,500 – not the highest ransom by far, as ISIS terrorists fetch $ 10,000 on average for young Yazidi girls. Nadi is one of thousands of Yazidi girls, captured and […]
‘Survivors of Yazidi genocide & sex slavery denied justice in Iraqi trials over ISIS’
Published time: 29 Dec, 2017 03:44 The Yazidi minority who suffered a “genocide” in the war against IS in Iraq, with thousands of women and children still missing and survivors subjected to sex slavery, are not getting justice human rights organisations told RT. “This community has suffered so much throughout this genocide…,” co-founder of the […]
‘I ran for a day and a night’: Yazidi girls share blood-curdling stories of ISIS slavery
A woman who spent three years as an ISIS slave and a girl who was only five when taken are among the lucky few to have returned home, while hundreds of Yazidi girls remain in captivity. RT spoke to them about the ordeal. Samiyah was pregnant when Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants descended on […]
8 head-scratching things Roy Moore has said about slavery, evolution, and more
Roy Moore’s campaign for a Senate seat in Alabama seemed to rebound to some degree this week, despite multiple allegations from women who said he pursued varying levels of sexual contact with them when they were teens and he was in his 30s. But a new focus on Moore’s previous public statements on controversial topics […]
Brussels rally turns violent as European capitals protest ‘modern slavery’ in Libya (VIDEOS)
Dozens have been arrested in Brussels after one of several European rallies against modern slavery in Libya turned violent. The very government that the West helped form after the fall of Gaddafi is now facing pressure over its inability to tackle human rights abuses. Torture, human trafficking and abuse have become the appalling reality of […]
Members of traveller family jailed over modern-day slavery camp
Published time: 12 Sep, 2017 16:13 Several members of a traveller family have been sentenced to jail for running a modern-day slavery camp. Ten men and one woman belonging to the Rooney family were convicted at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday for exploiting vulnerable people on a site in Drinsey Nook, Lincolnshire. Read more Nine […]
Police investigating case of British model kidnapped for ‘sex slavery’ make arrest
The brother of the man who allegedly kidnapped British model Chloe Ayling to sell her as a sex slave on the dark web has been arrested in the English West Midlands. Michal Konrad Herba, 36, was arrested at an address in Tividale on Wednesday in a joint operation by West Midlands Police and East Midlands […]
Slavery & human trafficking in ‘every large UK town & city’ – National Crime Agency
Published time: 10 Aug, 2017 12:25 Forced prostitution “could be happening on your street,” the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned, as it revealed modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK is far more prevalent than previously thought. The NCA released figures on Thursday showing there are currently more than 300 live policing operations […]