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Slave labor organizer sentenced to prison
By Wang Qingchu |
December 29, 2011, Thursday
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A former government official in southwest Sichuan Province was sentenced to three years in jail and fined 60,000 yuan (US$9,492) for forcing hundreds of mentally retarded people to do slave labor in factories around the country.
Zeng Lingquan, head of the Quxian County Association for the Disabled and a member of a government think tank, ran a homeless shelter with his wife and used it to round up beggars and the retarded, the Procuratorial Daily reported today.
They detained these people, taught them some skills and sent them as free labor to sweatshops in Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong, Hunan, Sichuan and Xinjiang, prosecutors told the newspaper.
Between 2006 and 2008, Zeng sent tens of laborers to a chemical factory in Toksun County in the remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region where they were abused and forced to do heavy work. Zeng was paid 300 yuan per worker every month.
Li Shuqiong, Zeng's wife, was given a year and a half behind bars and fined 20,000 yuan for the same crime.
Zeng Lingquan, head of the Quxian County Association for the Disabled and a member of a government think tank, ran a homeless shelter with his wife and used it to round up beggars and the retarded, the Procuratorial Daily reported today.
They detained these people, taught them some skills and sent them as free labor to sweatshops in Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong, Hunan, Sichuan and Xinjiang, prosecutors told the newspaper.
Between 2006 and 2008, Zeng sent tens of laborers to a chemical factory in Toksun County in the remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region where they were abused and forced to do heavy work. Zeng was paid 300 yuan per worker every month.
Li Shuqiong, Zeng's wife, was given a year and a half behind bars and fined 20,000 yuan for the same crime.
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