Human rights activist: Knowledge about webcam slavery is the best protection for female students

Cases of Russian girls falling into webcam slavery are not widespread yet, but they are gaining momentum, so the problem needs to be discussed as widely as possible, believes Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia. She named a way to protect students from depraved business in a conversation with Lenta.ru.

Earlier in Moscow, a criminal scheme to lure girls into webcam slavery was uncovered. It is known that the number of victims is in the dozens. The students were offered a flexible schedule and salaries starting from 80 thousand rubles, but before being hired they were photographed with their passports in front of them and then blackmailed.

“Now prevention can only be knowledge that this can happen, so that girls who find themselves in such situations understand how to proceed, so that girls who find employment know that this can happen, and that if they are asked to do this and that, then most likely the next step will be blackmail and so on. Therefore, we now need to talk about this as much as possible, as I already said, and only in this way will we save our students,” the human rights activist shared.