Tajik migrants were deceived in Mariupol

A group of Tajik migrants in Mariupol are not receiving their promised salaries.

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According to Radio Ozodi, Tajik migrants who were sent by Russian construction companies to rebuild the destroyed Mariupol are complaining that their employers have deceived them. They claim that employers are only paying them half of the promised salary.

A number of Russian construction companies offered migrants from Tajikistan the opportunity to earn money through reconstruction work in Mariupol. Those who agreed were promised salaries ranging from 130,000 to 250,000 rubles per month. In addition to high salaries, labor migrants were promised free housing and three meals a day.

They complain that their salary has been reduced to 60,000 rubles, but they are not receiving even this amount.

Tajik human rights activist Karimjon Yerov believes that the migrants are in Mariupol illegally. “Mariupol is territory of Ukraine, and they are there and working without permission from the Ukrainian authorities. The war is ongoing in the country, and if the migrant builders are captured, they will face punishment under Ukrainian and international laws. The Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war will not apply to them,” Yerov said in an interview with Radio Ozodi.

The Embassy of Tajikistan in Russia has not yet responded to the sending of Tajik citizens to the war-torn territory.

In March of this year, Russia launched a massive missile strike on this port city of Ukraine. Later, Russian troops surrounded Mariupol and soon captured the city. Kyiv claims that Ukraine will definitely reclaim its territories within internationally recognized borders.