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30 Mar 2017

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Human Rights Europe

Greece: Human rights court awards €576,000 to forced labour migrant strawberry-pickers

Forty-two migrants, forced to pick strawberries under armed guard, have won the backing of human rights judges in their complaint against Greece. The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that the Bangladeshis were subjected to forced labour and did not receive effective protection from the Greek State... In its human rights judgement, the European court found, firstly, that the applicants’ situation was one of human trafficking and forced labour, and specified that exploitation through labour was one aspect of trafficking in human beings...