| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2009 
Mexico City Police Free Dozens of "Slave Workers"
 Robert Campbell - Reuters
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December 04,
 |  | Investigators are probing allegations that police officers helped round up some of those held in the factory during routine street patrols. |  | | |
Mexico City - Mexican police freed 107 people on Thursday who were imprisoned and forced to work in a clandestine factory in the capital, the prosecutor's office said.
Police raided the factory, which made clothing clasps, after several months of investigation following the complaint of a worker who had escaped from the facility.
Twenty-three people were arrested.
Mexican media reported the freed workers were suffering from malnutrition and showed signs of physical abuse.
Most were indigenous people from the south of the country and drug and alcohol addicts rounded up from Mexico City's streets, a spokeswoman for the city prosecutor's office said.
Some were lured into the factory with the promise of jobs. Investigators were also probing allegations that police officers helped round up some of those held in the factory during routine street patrols, Mexican media reported.
Mexicans trying to migrate to the United States are being increasingly targeted by Mexico's ruthless organized crime groups that have expanded into kidnapping and extortion in recent years.
(Editing by John O'Callaghan)
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