Police have released new details about the investigation involving three women allegedly held as slaves for at least 30 years.
The Metropolitan Police said the two 67-year-old suspects, a man and woman who have been released on bail, are of Indian and Tanzanian origin and came to the UK in the 1960s.
A 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old Briton were taken from a property in Brixton, south London, last month after one of the women called a support group asking for help.
She told the Freedom Charity she had been held against her will for more than 30 years.
Officers said two of the women met the male suspect in London "through a shared political ideology" and that they lived at an address which could be called a "collective".
Commander Steve Rodhouse said: "Somehow that collective came to an end and the women ended up continuing to live with the suspects.
"How this resulted in the women living in this way for over 30 years is what are seeking to establish, but we believe emotional and physical abuse has been a feature of all the victims' lives."
Police are carrying out house-to-house enquiries near the property where the suspects were arrested.
Investigators believe the youngest of the alleged victims may have spent her entire life as a domestic slave.
Cmdr Rodhouse said: "The 30-year-old woman does have a birth certificate; however that is all the official documentation we can find.
"We believe she has lived with the suspects and the other victims all her life, but of course at this early stage we are still seeking out evidence."
Scotland Yard revealed that part of the agreement when the women were removed from the address on October 25 was that police would not at that stage take any action.
None of the women was reported missing after they were rescued.
The exact location of the property where the women had been living has not been revealed and police say they are "taking every step" to protect the "emotionally fragile and highly vulnerable" victims.
Aneeta Prem, founder of Freedom Charity, said: "We have seen an extraordinary rise in calls to our helpline since the rescue of the three women came into the public domain.
"We received five times as many calls in 24 hours as we normally do in one week and are needing to increase our resources to cope with this extra demand.
"These women have had traumatic and distributing experiences, which they have revealed to us.
"What needs to happen now is that the three victims, who have begun a long process of recovery, are able to go through their rehabilitation undisturbed, without being identified."
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