Couple charged in slave labor case
By Zhang Xuanchen |
April 8, 2011, Friday
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PROSECUTORS in northwest China yesterday brought charges against a couple for allegedly holding and forcing 18 mentally retarded workers to do physical labor for little or no pay and abusing them.
Li Xinglin, owner of Jia'ersi Green Construction Material Chemical Factory, and his wife Li Yunhua were charged with using forced labor, said the indictment by the People's Procuratorate of Toksun County of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Li Xinglin was also charged with causing a major workplace safety accident as he allegedly covered up the death of a worker who was crushed by a stone mill.
The indictment alleged the couple had received 10 laborers from a so-called homeless shelter in Sichuan Province soon after they opened the factory in July 2006. They paid Zeng Lingquan, a person in charge of the shelter, 300 yuan (US$ 45.84) per worker every month, while the workers received no pay. Zeng has been detained in Sichuan.
The slave laborers were housed in poor conditions without adequate food or drinking water and suffered from frequent abuse, according to the indictment.
Li Xinglin, owner of Jia'ersi Green Construction Material Chemical Factory, and his wife Li Yunhua were charged with using forced labor, said the indictment by the People's Procuratorate of Toksun County of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Li Xinglin was also charged with causing a major workplace safety accident as he allegedly covered up the death of a worker who was crushed by a stone mill.
The indictment alleged the couple had received 10 laborers from a so-called homeless shelter in Sichuan Province soon after they opened the factory in July 2006. They paid Zeng Lingquan, a person in charge of the shelter, 300 yuan (US$ 45.84) per worker every month, while the workers received no pay. Zeng has been detained in Sichuan.
The slave laborers were housed in poor conditions without adequate food or drinking water and suffered from frequent abuse, according to the indictment.
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