this is a true story, let's take care of our
sisters..
Yelena is a 25-year-old Belarusian with
a college degree. She responded to a Minsk employment agency’s
advertisement seeking nightclub dancers in Cyprus. The agency provided
Yelena with a work visa, a three-month employment contract, and a
written guarantee that the job would not require any sexual activities.
Immediately upon arrival in Cyprus, the owners of the nightclub where
she was to work confiscated her passport and told her she would be
forced to work as a prostitute at the club. They also told Yelena that
she would have to repay a 'debt' to cover her travel and visa expenses.
Over the next three months she was forced to work in the Cypriot sex
industry, suffering physical and psychological abuse. The club owners
confiscated her earnings as 'debt' payments. Once the owners recovered
their expenses, they released Yelena with nothing.
Please, spread the word out there...
Belarus is a country of origin for women and
children trafficked to Western, Central, and Southern Europe, Russia,
the Baltic states, Japan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and the United Arab
Emirates for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Officials and experts
estimate that thousands of Belarusian women are trafficked each year.
