Uzbek Antislavery Activist Held In Mental Institution
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Activist Elena Urlaeva has spent years fighting against forced labor and child labor in Uzbekistan's cotton industry. On March 1, she was arrested and sent to a psychiatric facility. Urlaeva believes she was detained to keep her from meeting with international labor activists. (RFE/RL, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Anti-Slavery International)