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14 slave workers rescued from Guangdong kiln
By Wang Qingchu |
May 13, 2011, Friday
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AUTHORITIES in Guangdong Province in south China freed 14 workers, including three underage teens, from a brick kiln where they were abused and forced to work 15 hours a day.
The workers who lived in confinement in poor conditions had to toil 15 hours a day moving bricks in the kiln in Lilin County. They got beaten up each time they attempted to escape, Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday.
The brick kiln has existed for about eight years and local authorities had raided its labor camp several times but it managed to reopen due to its remote location for government inspectors, an official told the newspaper.
There are still dozens of such kilns in the area and the government will "start an extensive search to root them out," the official was quoted as saying.
The workers were either tricked or abducted to the kiln by a middleman who was paid 400 yuan (US$62) for each laborer brought in. Every time they tried to flee the "gulag," the owner would beat them and ask them to return the 400 yuan first.
The workers who lived in confinement in poor conditions had to toil 15 hours a day moving bricks in the kiln in Lilin County. They got beaten up each time they attempted to escape, Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday.
The brick kiln has existed for about eight years and local authorities had raided its labor camp several times but it managed to reopen due to its remote location for government inspectors, an official told the newspaper.
There are still dozens of such kilns in the area and the government will "start an extensive search to root them out," the official was quoted as saying.
The workers were either tricked or abducted to the kiln by a middleman who was paid 400 yuan (US$62) for each laborer brought in. Every time they tried to flee the "gulag," the owner would beat them and ask them to return the 400 yuan first.
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