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They were instead put to work for little pay, mainly at a waste-recycling plant near Budapest, according to details of the investigation made public on Friday.

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Members were put to work at Jesus Fellowship businesses, then bused into city centres at weekends to evangelise and encourage others to join the movement.

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Dmitry Luksha built up muscles breaking rocks in a Belarusian prison camp, put to work alongside men convicted of murder and drug smuggling.

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They both described being put to work in the Nicholsons’ compound before being shipped out, and both ended up working on a vessel called on the Sea Lady.

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After he and four other members of his platoon were captured, they were shipped to Poland by train and put to work in a coal mine.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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