Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg Dornau
Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg Dornau“He arrived in a car with German license plates. Then he came over and greeted us warmly,” Nikolai*, recalled in an interview with theThe onion plantation, where Nikolai and dozens of other political detainees were working in February 2024, was owned by Jörg Dornau, a member of the far-right Alternative for party in Saxony’s state parliament.
Reports that Dornau had struck a deal with a prison in Lida, a city in western Belarus, to employ prisoners jailed for political dissent were firstand asked for comment about the legal and ethical concerns surrounding the allegations, but did not respond. At that time, Belarusian authorities detained more than 35,000 people, many of whom were tortured in custody or left the country. Dornau is reported to have established Zybulka-Bel Ltd, the company that runs the farm, in October 2020 when nationwide pro-democracy protests were still sweeping the country.
“Around 30 people were brought in at once to work – from both the detention centre and the pre-trial detention facility. About 20 hired workers were also working for wages,” the watchdog told theAfter his release from jail in Belarus, Nikolai, who had already been detained twice on political grounds and now faced the threat of a longer sentence, decided to flee the country.
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