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Re:Dubai real estate data leak – Exposes criminals, official... by devoutsalsa on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @08:50PM (#31255527)
There are definitely people who are enslaved in the UAE under the Kafala System. It’s unclear to me how widespread it is, but it does happen. When I was there, I personally met a woman on Tinder, and on our date she told me she had been forced into prostitution by the person who brought her to the UAE. She had to earn tens of thousands of dollars to get her passport back from him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system

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Re:Dubai real estate data leak – Exposes criminals, official... by rosndo on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:29AM (#31257372)
This is absolutely illegal and you can get your passport back within a day or two by just calling MOHRE.

A decade ago this stuff may have been more common, but the government has cracked down heavily to the point that it doesn’t exist any more than it does in Europe.

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