Women freed from sex slavery in Russia

MOSCOW, March 22 (UPI) -- Two Vietnamese women who said they had been held as sex slaves were freed from an illegal brothel in Moscow, police said Friday.

The women were found in a former hotel where the brothel was operating, RIA Novosti reported.

Investigators said the women told them the organizers of the brothel had hired them to work at a textile factory in Russia but once they arrived in Moscow their documents were taken from them and they were forced into prostitution.

Suspects involved in operation of the brothel were been detained, police said.