Jerusalem rabbi arrested for 'holding women in slavery':
Israeli police have arrested a rabbi who is suspected of holding around 50 women and children in conditions of slavery. The suspect, in his 60s, was detained in an ultra-Orthodox district in central Jerusalem on suspicion of running a "closed community" where women and children "worked under conditions of slavery". He and eight female accomplices are suspected of isolating the women in a residential complex, along with children up to the age of five, it added. The arrest follows a raid on the complex, where the alleged victims are believed to have been kept isolated from their families. The women had been punished in various ways and had money stolen from them, police said.
A two-month investigation was launched after police received reports the religious leader had for years committed "severe offences" against those living at the residence, police said.
Predictably, the suspect has denied doing anything wrong.
Predictably, the suspect has denied doing anything wrong.
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