A brothel in Turkey gets raided by the police. Everybody inside gets arrested. One of them is the Moldovan Natasha. Although she is forced to work as a prostitute, she ends up as a criminal in a terrible Turkish prison. The conditions are harsh. Natasha receives no medical or physical help. She has to pay for her food and to make things worse, she is humiliated by the guards.

“Everything about this example is true,” says Lilia Gorceag. “Except the name.” Gorceag worked with Natasha as a psychologist at the International Organization of Migration. The organisation has a shelter for victims of human trafficking in one of the suburbs of Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.

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