German far-right politician accused of using political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus
by Pjotr Sauer and Kate Connolly in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#6R2Y7)
Reports of dissenters working for 4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jorg Dornau
Midway through Nikolai's shift sorting onions alongside other political prisoners in a warehouse in western Belarus, a tall and bald foreigner entered the building.
He arrived in a car with German license plates. Then he came over and greeted us warmly," Nikolai*, recalled in an interview with the Observer.
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