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Tanuki

(14,919 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 07:26 AM Jun 2017

Chinese activist jailed while investigating Ivanka's factory "met with an accident in his cell"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/06/us-calls-on-china-to-release-activists-investigating-ivanka-trump-brand

"The US state department has called on China to release three labour activists who were investigating abuses at a factory that makes products for Ivanka Trump’s clothing label, one week after the men disappeared into police custody.

The three activists were preparing to issue a report accusing factories that make shoes for the daughter of US president Donald Trump of a host of violations including paying below China’s legal minimum wage, managers verbally abusing workers and “violations of women’s rights”, according to their NGO China Labor Watch.

Activists investigating Ivanka Trump's China shoe factory detained or missing

But one of the activists, Hua Haifeng, was detained by police on suspicion of “illegal use of monitoring equipment” and two others, Li Zhao and Su Heng, have gone missing and are presumed to be in police custody.

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Despite US calls, it appears Hua may already have been denied due process. His lawyer, Wen Yu, was prevented from seeing Hua at the detention center this week.
Police told Wen that Hua “had met with an accident in his cell” and that he would be unable to see his client until after Hua was arraigned on criminal charges, according to US-funded Radio Free Asia.".....(.more)
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Chinese activist jailed while investigating Ivanka's factory "met with an accident in his cell" (Original Post) Tanuki Jun 2017 OP
I hope he survives his incarceration . .n/t annabanana Jun 2017 #1
Ivanka could call for his release janterry Jun 2017 #2
Very true. She should condemn his arrest and demand his release in no uncertain terms. Tanuki Jun 2017 #3
 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
2. Ivanka could call for his release
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 07:40 AM
Jun 2017

And call for general reforms in that factory.

It IS her fault. That factory is working on HER products.

Does she even care??

Tanuki

(14,919 posts)
3. Very true. She should condemn his arrest and demand his release in no uncertain terms.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 07:48 AM
Jun 2017

Her silence on this bears witness to her "values" and what kind of human being she truly is. I can only hope that the publicity Amnesty International, other human rights groups, and some media are giving this will keep him and his colleagues from "disappearing."

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