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| Subject: Maoist collective: Police charge man in case of enslaved women Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:24 am | |
| A man who led an obscure Maoist collective and allegedly held three women against their will in a London house for 30 years has been charged with 25 offences including rape, police said today. Police said Aravindan Balakrishnan, 74, was charged with false imprisonment, rape, cruelty to a person under 16 years old and indecent assault. The charges, spanning from 1980 to 2013, relate to three women who were freed from a south London house last year after decades of alleged "emotional control" and domestic servitude. At the time, police described the case as the largest-ever modern-day slavery case in Britain. Balakrishnan, known as "Comrade Bala," led the Maoist collective in the late 1970s. Police said he and another suspect, a 67-year-old woman, shared a political ideology with the three victims, who were reportedly a 69-year-old Malaysian, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old Briton.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/25757303/police-charge-man-in-case-of-enslaved-women/ |
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