Saving Russia’s brick slaves: ’We’re taking them home’ | Modern Day Slavery

Thousands of Russia’s most vulnerable men and women go missing every year. Subscribe to The Guardian ► They are plucked from cities and towns and driven hundreds of miles to the remote republic of Dagestan, where they are enslaved in rural brick factories and farms. Alexei and Zukiya, two anti-slavery activists working for Alternativa, an NGO, are often their only chance of escape. Become a Guardian supporter ► The Guardian ► Suggested videos: Slave ships and supermarkets ► Battle for Mosul ► Radical Brownies ► Desert Fire ► 6x9: experience solitary confinement ► Gun Nation ► We Walk Together ► The last job on Earth ► Patrick Stewart: the ECHR and us ► The epic journey of a