Domestic Servitude2024
China CN
An Indonesian domestic worker was awarded HK$868,607 in compensation after suffering severe physical abuse by her former Hong Kong employers. The ruling concluded a decade-long legal battle and renewed calls for stronger protection of migrant domestic workers.
Forced Labor2003
China CN
Sam Lu, a former graduate student at Georgia State University, worked as a tax auditor in China. Because he handed in a letter expressing support for the Falun Gong organization, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Guangdong Province in China. Sam was forced to make toys and other products for 15 hours per day. Sam and other prisoners lived in a 300x300 cell where they also made the goods, ate and went to the restroom. He said that inmates were beaten with a wire whip if they could not keep up with expected production levels. All of the above information is from "To Plead Our Own Cause" by Dr. Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd - Cornell University Press - 2008.
Child Labor2009
China CN
All the 30 traffickers, led by Chen Qi Zai, are from Fuan, Fujian. They traffick/purchase infants from Guangxi, Yunan...; each child is priced around 30000-40000 yuan (around 5000 dollars), the traffickers typically add 3000-4000 rmb (400 dollars)then sell the kids for profit. They buy and sell a group of children on a monthly rate with a local who finds families that are interested in buying.