Anastasia Melega, 24, who had a son aged four, was found dead in the toilet of a nightclub in Gerolakkos, also known as Alayköy.
She was living with her husband and her son before moving to Northern Cyprus.
Human rights organisations are demanding a probe into the death of a married woman from Moldova who was ‘forced into prostitution’ in Northern Cyprus after being promised a job as a manager.
Reports indicate that she was lured to North Cyprus under false pretences of a ‘highly paid managerial job’ but her passport was taken from her and she was forced to become a prostitute in a seedy nightclub.
Police in the unofficial republic registered her death as suicide by hanging, possibly due to shame of being forced to work as a sëx slave.
Now eight human rights and women’s groups have demanded a formal investigation into the circumstances of her death in nightclub Prenses, or Princess.
They demanded checks on the nightclub and its management and whether they would be ‘held accountable if found to have played a role in Melega’s death’.
‘The current situation fails to address the broader issues of labour and sexual exploitation experienced by the women who are somehow bound to these establishments,’ they said in a joint letter.
Women like Anastasia were subject to ‘psychological and/or physical violence, coercion, or threats.’
