More punished over slavery scandal
By Alice Zhang |
January 7, 2011, Friday
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SIX officials in Sichuan Province have been sacked and punished for failing to prevent a forced labor scandal in which 12 homeless men, eight of them mentally disabled, were sent to a quarry and worked like slaves for years.
They were the second group of officials punished after media exposed the scandal. Investigators found a government welfare center was also involved.
The Party's Quxian County Committee sacked Wang Yong, director of the county's civil affairs bureau; Liao Zebiao, chief of Qujiang Township and Fan Yunqu, its deputy chief, said a statement yesterday.
Three other officials from social welfare and human resources were also punished.
The former head of the county's welfare center, Liu Dingming, was suspended and put under investigation while another official at the center, Yang Junyi, was detained for allegedly trafficking humans.
The detention followed the emergence of a contract between the center and Zeng Lingquan, who was detained last December for allegedly running an illegal labor agency which sold some 200 homeless and disabled people into work across China.
They were the second group of officials punished after media exposed the scandal. Investigators found a government welfare center was also involved.
The Party's Quxian County Committee sacked Wang Yong, director of the county's civil affairs bureau; Liao Zebiao, chief of Qujiang Township and Fan Yunqu, its deputy chief, said a statement yesterday.
Three other officials from social welfare and human resources were also punished.
The former head of the county's welfare center, Liu Dingming, was suspended and put under investigation while another official at the center, Yang Junyi, was detained for allegedly trafficking humans.
The detention followed the emergence of a contract between the center and Zeng Lingquan, who was detained last December for allegedly running an illegal labor agency which sold some 200 homeless and disabled people into work across China.
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