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Aravindan Balakrishnan, 74, has been charged with one count of cruelty to a person under 16, four counts of rape and 19 counts of indecent assault.
The three alleged victims – a Briton in her 30s, an Irish woman in her 50s and a Malaysian woman in her 70s – had lived at an address in Brixton until October 2013.
BBC News
11 December 2014 Last updated at 16:51
Man charged in London ‘slavery’ inquiry
London ‘slavery’ inquiry
Police charged Aravindan Balakrishnan with 25 offencesPolice have charged a man with false imprisonment, rape and child cruelty in a suspected slavery case in London.
Aravindan Balakrishnan, 74, has been charged with one count of cruelty to a person under 16, four counts of rape and 19 counts of indecent assault.
The suspected offences relate to three women. No further action is being taken regarding his wife arrested last year.
Mr Balakrishnan, who was arrested in Lambeth in November 2013, is due before Westminster magistrates on 17 December.
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Josh Halliday Story from Westminster Magistrates Court on Brixton slavery suspect Aravindan Balakrishnan http://gu.com/p/4498q
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The trial of Aravindan Balakrishnan over the #Brixton ‘slavery’ case begins today http://buff.ly/1sz9cYf
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SuzyQ8 Brixton slavery case: suspected cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan is charged – Telegraph | @scoopit http://sco.lt/8ETyG9
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NST
Man accused of holding Malaysian woman as modern day slave to appear in court
By ZAHARAH OTHMAN – 17 December 2014 @ 7:43 PM
LONDON: The man accused of holding several women, including a Malaysian, in what is known as modern day slavery, will appear in court today, charged with 25 offences including rape.
Arabindan Balakrishnan, 74, was said to have led an obscure Maoist collective and allegedly held three women against their will in a London house for 30 years.
The Malaysian woman, believed to be Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab, 69, had come to Britain in 1968 to study and it was said that she became involved in the Maoist sect. She was one of the three women who were taken away by police in November last year.
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They had a brief yet emotional reunion, where Aishah was told about her mother’s death. Kamar was taken to see Aishah at a secret location. Kamar told the Malaysian press before leaving for Malaysia that Aishah looked well in spite of media reports that she was held as “a slave” for thirty years.
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Balakrishnan is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London today.
http://www.nst.com.my/node/63470
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WHO IS SHE?
It looks as though we may now have the name of the Malaysian woman. She could be Siti Aishah, who went to England in 1968 with her fiance.
This was the young Siti Aishah.
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Hishamuddin Rais had suggested that the 69-year-old Malaysian woman held as a slave in a London “collective” for some 30 years could be Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab, who went missing years ago.
Now a family has come forth to claim that she is their long-lost kin.
Retired teacher Kamar Mautum, is of the belief that her 69-year-old sister, Siti Aishah, is the Malaysian woman.
For the full story, click on the Malaysian Insider link:
*Family of Malaysian “slave” Siti Aishah reveals her story
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Malaysian Insider
London slave could be missing leftist Siti Aishah, says ex-activist
BY AMIN ISKANDAR AND MOHD FARHAN DARWIS
November 26, 2013
A 69-year-old Malaysian woman held as a slave in a London “collective” for some 30 years could be Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab, who went missing years ago, says former student activist Hishamuddin Rais.
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Hishamuddin, who went into self-exile in London in the 1970s, said Siti Aishah was active with Malaysian students in a leftist group that called itself “New Malayan Youth” in the British capital city at that time.
“Her brother sought me in 1991 to get assistance to find Aishah, who was said to be missing, as both of us come from the same district,” Hishamuddin told The Malaysian Insider early today.
“I also lived in Brixton, London, where the woman was found,” said Hishamuddin, who runs a blog called “TukarTiub”.
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Hishamuddin, who returned to Malaysia in 1994, said that Siti Aishah had studied in the exclusive Tunku Kursiah College in Seremban and furthered her studies in quantity surveying in London under a Colombo Plan scholarship.
London slave could be missing leftist Siti Aishah, says ex-activist
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The two ‘slavers’ have been named.
Malaysian Insider
British couple who allegedly kept three women slaves were prominent Maoists
November 25, 2013
The couple, named by British newspapers as Indian-born Aravindan Balakrishnan and his Tanzanian wife Chanda, were arrested Thursday after their three alleged captives were freed in a police operation.
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A Marxist history website said Balakrishnan, 73, was a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) but had been suspended in 1974 because of the “conspiratorial and splittist activities” of his “clique”.
British couple who allegedly kept three women slaves were prominent Maoists
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YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
UK slaves bound with ‘invisible handcuffs’ in communist group, says Telegraph
The Malay Mail Onlin
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 — The three women, including a Malaysian, who were held as slaves for 30 years in London were not physically restrained, but were bound with “invisible handcuffs” in a communist collective run by their captors, the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday.
The UK newspaper reported that the two suspects in one of Britain’s strangest cases of modern-day slavery had run a communist collective in the 1970s that worshipped Chinese communist revolutionary leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, and that recruited women from other far left-wing groups, who were encouraged to engage in “revolutionary work”.
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The alleged captors, who are husband and wife and reportedly hail from India and Tanzania, were arrested last week for holding three women against their will in a house in London for at least three decades, but have since been released on bail.
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The Daily Telegraph reported that the couple, based in Brixton, south London, had set up a “notorious communist squat” in 1974 and were subsequently imprisoned in connection with their political activities.
The organisation reportedly published pamphlets calling for the downfall of Western capitalism, besides running study groups, lectures and organising film screenings.
The UK newspaper reported that the police arrested 14 members of the organisation in 1978, including the two leaders, who were subsequently jailed for assaulting a police officer.
The organisation then reportedly broke up after the headquarters were closed, with the two leaders moving into a squat in Brixton with several followers.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/uk-slaves-bound-invisible-handcuffs-communist-group-says-024600080.html
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Muslim Couple held 3 women slaves in London for 30 years: Where is slavery still rampant and sanctioned? The M… http://bit.ly/17XEcXB
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London Evening Standard
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Channel 4 News
Slavery victims were living in ‘collective’
Scotland Yard said officers are speaking to local residents near the house where the arrests were made in Lambeth, south London. Police are concentrating their efforts on Peckford Place, a block of flats in Brixton.
Commander Steve Rodhouse, said: “We are starting to carry out house to house enquiries, seeking information from local residents near the house where we arrested the suspects.”
http://www.channel4.com/news/slavery-victims-were-living-in-collective?%27%27
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Photo shows street where London police focusing attention in #slavery case http://bbc.in/18fobSu & pic.twitter.com/9V8Oy0fC9T
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YAHOO! NEWS. UK & IRELAND
Fresh Details In London ‘Slavery’ Probe
Sky News
Police have released new details about the investigation involving three women allegedly held as slaves for at least 30 years.
The Metropolitan Police said the two 67-year-old suspects, a man and woman who have been released on bail, are of Indian and Tanzanian origin and came to the UK in the 1960s.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fresh-details-london-slavery-probe-135706638.html#ncRCPAQ
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Malaysian Insider
London “slaves” lived in political “collective”, says police
November 23, 2013
Three women enslaved in a house in London for 30 years lived there in some kind of “collective” and shared a political ideology with their captors, police said on Saturday.
The women, aged 69, 57, and 30, were rescued after calling an anti-slavery charity for help. Police arrested a man and a woman, both 67, of Indian and Tanzanian origin who had come to Britain in the 1960s.
“We believe that two of the victims met the male suspect in London through a shared political ideology, and that they lived together at an address that you could effectively call a ‘collective’,” Commander Steve Rodhouse said in a statement.
“Somehow that collective came to an end and how the women ended up continuing to live with the suspects … for over 30 years is what we are seeking to establish, but we believe emotional and physical abuse has been a feature of all the victims’ lives.”
Reuters, November 23, 2013.
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The Guardian also indicated that investigations would focus on the “complex relationship” between the three women and their captors, and why they did not try to escape for such a long time.
Star
Saturday November 23, 2013 MYT 7:32:39 PM
London slavery: British police investigating possible cult connection
PETALING JAYA: British police are investigating the possibility of cult involvement in the case of three women – including a 59-year-old Malaysian – whom were held captive for 30 years in London, The Guardian reported.
Additionally, it also reported that investigators are trying to determine if another captive, a 30-year-old woman, was the daughter of the male captor and another captive, a 57-year-old Irish national.
The Guardian reported that the police were investigating if the captors, an elderly British couple, used brainwashing and beating, methods often employed by cults, to keep the women bound to them.
Sources close to the case reportedly said that the power the captors held over the three women was akin to that held by semi-religious cult leaders.
London slavery: British police investigating possible cult connection
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NST
23 November 2013| last updated at 04:44PM
Ministry ready to help Malaysian woman enslaved in U.K
Rohani said the ministry was following the developments of the case and would be ready to provide counselling for the traumatised victim.
“Now we are waiting for the Foreign Ministry to update us on the progress so that we can gather more information,” she said after opening the International Welfare Volunteer Conference near here today.
Rohani was commenting on the rescue of three women, including the Malaysian woman, who were reported to have been physically and mentally abused for decades in what was described as Britain’s worst case of modern-day slavery.
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Star
riday November 22, 2013 MYT 11:37:35 PM
London slavery: Victims were beaten and brainwashed, say British police
Metro Police UK Commander Steve Rodhouse (centre) at a press briefing on the London Slavery case. – Picture posted on @MetPoliceUK Twitter account
PETALING JAYA: The victims of the Lambeth slavery case involving a 69-year-old Malaysian woman and two others were subjected to beatings, the Metropolitan Police revealed in a press conference Friday.
According to British media reports, the victims were physically abused and emotionally controlled in the “complicated and disturbing” slavery case.
The police were quoted as saying they needed to find out what the “invisible handcuffs” used to manipulate the three victims were.
There was no evidence of sexual abuse, they said, adding that to outsiders, the three victims and two suspects appeared to be a normal family.
The police also said that there was no evidence the victims had been trafficked.
London slavery: Victims were beaten and brainwashed, say British police
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Malaysia Chronicle
Friday, 22 November 2013 21:30
SLAVE IN LONDON: M’sian woman had stroke but was denied medical help
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Q&A: WHAT THE POLICE KNOW ABOUT THE MYSTERY ‘SLAVES’
Who are the victims: A 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old British woman.
Who has been arrested: A non-British couple, both 67
Where were the arrests made: In Lambeth, south London
Are the victims related? Police say they do not believe them to be.
Are they in police custody? Scotland Yard say they are in another place of safety. ‘They are extremely traumatised which explains the discrepancy between with the Freedom Charity were contacted and the arrests were made. We continue to work closely with the victims to gather further information,’ a spokesman said.
Was the youngest victim born in the house in Lambeth? ‘We are not sure where she was born but she appears to have been in servitude for her entire life,’ the spokesman said.
Have you dealt with similar cases before? ‘The Met’s unit has dealt with cases of people held in servitude against their will for around 10 years. This is the first time we have come across people who have been held for such a considerable length of time,’ the spokesman said.
Has the youngest victim had contact with the outside world? The Met said: ‘We believe that she, and the others, had limited freedom. We will continue to speak to the victims to ascertain what this ascertained’
Chief Inspector Hyland said: ‘Their life was greatly controlled and for much of it they would have been kept in the premises.
‘We don’t know whether the 30-year-old was born in the house but the 30-year-old has spent her whole life, we believe, in servitude.
‘It is fair to suggest the 30-year-old had no contact with the outside world that we would see as normal.
‘The fact is she has spent her entire life in the control of this criminal network. We can’t say at the moment whether she is the daughter of the man we’ve arrested.
‘There’s no allegation of sexual abuse
Full article: http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=191332:london-slaves-msian-woman-69-had-stroke-but-was-denied-medical-help&Itemid=4#ixzz2lOBPaX9i
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Location: The three women were discovered in a house in the London borough of Lambeth, which runs to Waterloo, Stockwell, Brixton, Vauxhall, Streatham and Clapham areas of south London
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Malaysian Insider
They cried, they hugged me, says woman who helped Malaysian and two others escape “slavery” in London
The Malaysian woman and two others who were freed from “slavery” in London have thanked a charity that helped them regain their freedom.
Aneeta Prem of Freedom Charity said the three women are relieved to be out but face a difficult rehabilitation period.
“They’re quite traumatised… but they’re very relieved to be out. When I met them, it was a very humbling experience.
“They threw their arms around me, cried and thanked the charity for helping them,” Prem told The Guardian newspaper.
Prem, the founder of Freedom Charity, told ITV’s Daybreak programme she met the three women on Thursday.
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They are now believed to be in a safe house in London.
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YAHOO! NEWS UK & IRELAND
Women Were ‘Kept As Slaves For Over 30 Years’
Sky News – 1 hour 37 minutes ago
Two people have been released on bail as part of an investigation into slavery and domestic servitude at a house in London sparked by a report on Sky News.
The inquiry was launched after one of three alleged victims told a charity she had been held against her will for more than 30 years in a house in Lambeth, south London.
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Police said two people detained in connection with the investigation – a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman – have been bailed until a date in January, pending further inquiries.
Police believe the youngest of the alleged victims may have spent her entire life as a domestic slave.
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Officers said the two suspects, who are not British, were arrested at 7.30am and taken to a south London police station for questioning.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/two-arrested-london-slavery-probe-145359759.html#L6M9ZxZ
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BBC News London
22 November 2013 Last updated at 04:48 GMT
‘Slave’ women rescued: Three held in ‘horrific conditions’
Three women rescued from a house after allegedly being held as slaves for 30 years were kept in “horrific conditions”, a charity has said.
Freedom Charity said it had been called by a woman who said she and two others were being held in south London.
A Malaysian woman, 69, an Irish woman, 57, and a Briton, 30, were rescued on 25 October, it emerged on Thursday.
A 67-year-old man and woman, understood to be married, were arrested in Lambeth and later bailed until January.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland, from the Metropolitan Police’s human trafficking unit, said: “This is the very early stages of a complicated and sensitive investigation.
“These women are highly traumatised, having been held in servitude for at least 30 years with no real exposure to the outside world, and, trying to find out exactly what has happened over three decades will understandably take some time.”
The women were found following delicate phone conversations between the charity and the 57-year-old, who had secretly gained access to a phone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25046624
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azhrhm. @AYIEOSEMM 30 tahun enslaved? Kesiannya. Onw of them is a 69 years old Malaysian woman. #news pic.twitter.com/Rmba7e1GfR
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