சீனாவில் மன நலம் குன்றிய 360பேர் உட்பட 1300 பேர் அடிமைத்தனத்திலிருந்து விடுவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
360+ 'slaves' rescued
13/08/2007 23:30 - (SA)
China battles to block bad news
Boss admits to killing 'slave'
Beijing - Hundreds of mentally handicapped people have been rescued from slavery in Chinese brickyards and other workplaces, officials said on Monday as they announced the latest findings of a labour abuse crackdown.
At least 1 340 people, including 367 who are mentally handicapped, have been taken from brick kilns, mines and other forced labour situations since a slavery scandal in June, Labour and Social Security Deputy Minister Sun Baoshu said.
The June scandal centred on brickyards and shocked the nation. Previous government figures had put the number of slaves rescued from the kilns at 570 and there were few earlier references to widespread use of handicapped workers.
The crackdown has also now resulted in 147 arrests, according to Sun, whose comments were posted on a website run by China's State Council, or cabinet.
The brick-kiln scandal
Sixty people, including a police officer and social worker, have already been convicted for their involvement in the slavery scandal, according to previous reports carried in the state-run press.
In the most severe penalty, one man was last month (July) sentenced to death after being portrayed in the media as one of the main villains at a notorious brick kiln.
China also announced last month (July) that 95 members of the ruling Communist Party had been punished, but most just escaped with warnings.
The brick-kiln scandal surfaced in June after about 400 distraught parents posted a plea on the internet about their children who had been sold into slavery in northern China's Shanxi province and neighbouring Henan.
They made their case public after police and local authorities refused to help find their children. Authorities only took action after the internet postings caused widespread anger among ordinary Chinese.
The crackdown has now targeted workplaces employing 12.67 million workers, said Sun, who also heads the joint investigation group involving his ministry, the Ministry of Public Security and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
The probe found that 67 000, or nearly one quarter of the workplaces inspected nationwide, were operating without licenses.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
கம்யூனிஸ்ட் சீனாவில் 570 குழந்தை அடிமைகள் விடுவிக்கப்பட்டனர்
கம்யூனிஸ்ட் சீனாவில் மூன்று வயது ஐந்து வயது ஏழு வயது குழந்தைகளை கடத்தி அவர்களை பல்வேறு தொழிற்சாலைகளுக்கு விற்ற கும்பலை பிடித்துள்ளனர்.
இதில் ரொம்ப கேவலமான விஷயம் என்னவென்றால், இதில் ஏராளமான கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி அதிகாரிகளே ஈடுபட்டிருப்பதுதான்.
நல்லவேளை வெளிக்காற்று உள்ளே வந்து இப்படிப்பட்ட அடிமை முறைகளை பெயருக்கேனும் தடுக்கவேண்டிய நிலையில் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் சைனா உள்ளது.
China busts child slavery gang
AFP Published:Aug 15, 2007
BEIJING - Police have broken up a human trafficking kidnap gang in southern China, detaining 16 suspects accused of abducting and selling children, state media reported today.
Gang members riding motor bikes kidnapped three boys aged three, five and seven from the streets of Shantou city in Guangdong province in mid-July, the Beijing Times reported.
Three weeks later police traced the children to different parts of the province, breaking up the gang that had already sold off two of the boys for around 4,000 dollars each and was trying to sell the third, the report said.
Nine suspected gang members were arrested while seven more were held for questioning, the paper said, adding that two other people were detained on suspicion of buying the children.
The report comes just weeks a major child slavery scandal erupted in northern China, leading to the release of 570 enslaved workers including children from brick kilns in Shanxi and Henan provinces, according to state media reports.
The scandal was triggered after some 400 parents who had been turned away by police posted a plea on the Internet about missing children they feared had been sold into slavery.
Following a probe, more than 60 officials including a policeman and communist party members were jailed, and one brickyard manager was sentenced to death, state media reports said.
இதில் ரொம்ப கேவலமான விஷயம் என்னவென்றால், இதில் ஏராளமான கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி அதிகாரிகளே ஈடுபட்டிருப்பதுதான்.
நல்லவேளை வெளிக்காற்று உள்ளே வந்து இப்படிப்பட்ட அடிமை முறைகளை பெயருக்கேனும் தடுக்கவேண்டிய நிலையில் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் சைனா உள்ளது.
China busts child slavery gang
AFP Published:Aug 15, 2007
BEIJING - Police have broken up a human trafficking kidnap gang in southern China, detaining 16 suspects accused of abducting and selling children, state media reported today.
Gang members riding motor bikes kidnapped three boys aged three, five and seven from the streets of Shantou city in Guangdong province in mid-July, the Beijing Times reported.
Three weeks later police traced the children to different parts of the province, breaking up the gang that had already sold off two of the boys for around 4,000 dollars each and was trying to sell the third, the report said.
Nine suspected gang members were arrested while seven more were held for questioning, the paper said, adding that two other people were detained on suspicion of buying the children.
The report comes just weeks a major child slavery scandal erupted in northern China, leading to the release of 570 enslaved workers including children from brick kilns in Shanxi and Henan provinces, according to state media reports.
The scandal was triggered after some 400 parents who had been turned away by police posted a plea on the Internet about missing children they feared had been sold into slavery.
Following a probe, more than 60 officials including a policeman and communist party members were jailed, and one brickyard manager was sentenced to death, state media reports said.
Monday, July 23, 2007
சீனாவின் உடல் ஊனமுற்றோர் பிச்சைக்காரர்களாக விற்பனை
தொடரும் சீன அடிமைமுறையில், தொழிலாளர்களின் புரட்சியின் விளைவாக உடல் ஊனமுற்றோர் பிச்சைக்காரர்களாக விற்கப்படுகிறார்கள்.
China's disabled children are sold into slavery as beggars
As Beijing prepares for the Olympics, racketeers live well off their street army of exploited teenagers
John Ray in Beijing
Sunday July 22, 2007
The Observer
Nature Has not been kind to Gao Zhou Zhou - though not as cruel as other human beings. Her back is bent and bowed; her legs fold uselessly beneath her. She gets around using a homemade skateboard. Her arms, legs and face are very, very dirty. She doesn't know her age - she looks perhaps 15 - and she cannot remember her real parents. But she knows the pain of life on the streets of Beijing. 'When I first came here they beat me so hard I nearly died. They beat me and they beat me,' she says.
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It was three years ago when a man she calls 'uncle' came to her village. There was a cash transaction with her stepfather, who was promised the equivalent of £150 in instalments. In the land of the rampant capitalist, this was just another business deal.
Since then, most days from early morning to nightfall, she has been hunched over her pitch - a patch of pavement close to Tiananmen Square, amid the crowds of tourists and shoppers. Most don't offer a second glance. Some pause long enough to place a few notes into the tin she holds out. On a good day she earns 300 yuan (£20). It goes to 'uncle'.
'The man who took me here is a very powerful man. Everybody in the village is scared of him. He can chop off anybody's arm or leg. Whatever he wants. He's got men all over China. He told me he will find me wherever I go.'
This is not an isolated story. Another girl, born with a curved spine and legs that can carry her only in a spider-like walk, tells us how she was sold into what amounted to a life of slavery in Beijing. Yang Ping says: 'On the first day I only earned 20 yuan from begging. They beat me up'. She starts to cry: 'Can we not talk about this?'
Ping is one of six, five of them girls. She wanted to make a living and her family needed the money. Two years ago, she was lured to Beijing with the promise of a job in a toy factory. Her parents were promised £20 a month.
Arriving in the city, she was told the factory had gone bankrupt and she was forced to beg for her keepers. 'When they played mahjong and lost a few hundred yuan, there would be no food for a start. And then they would show us violence, just like that. They kicked me on the ground and beat me with a belt. They bought nice clothes and had nice cars. I had nothing.'
In a country still in shock from this summer's unprecedented public soul-searching over the slave labour used in brick factories, the sale of children, often disabled, to work as beggars is yet another scandal the authorities will have to tackle. Next year Beijing will be both Olympic and Paralympic city. What plans are there to clear the streets of the thousands who make a living from them?
The Beijing government refused to say. But charity workers and officials say the authorities have not yet worked out a plan - at least not one they can talk about. Most observers believe the beggars will be cleaned out, one way or the other. And that would be tough on Li Ji Hai and his wife.
A middle-aged couple, they live in a shabby corner of Beijing and live off the earnings of beggars. One is a baby boy who barely stirs during our visit. 'He's sick,' Li tells us. 'We found him by the roadside in March.' The other is a teenager - from the same province as Zhou Zhou. They say they bought him for a few hundred yuan. Each day they send him out to beg on their behalf.
Li walks across the room and grabs the boy's legs. He shakes them around to demonstrate that he is paralysed from the waist down. 'I know it's illegal,' Li admits. 'But begging has a long history in China. There's nothing to hide. Everybody has to make a living.'
According to Kate Wedgwood, the outgoing China director of Save the Children, it is part of a much bigger phenomenon. Amid the huge tide of Chinese workers moving from country to city, as many as a million children have become separated from their parents. Perhaps 150,000 are looked after by the state; the rest, presumably, are fending for themselves. 'A lot of it is about ignorance,' said Wedgwood. 'Often the parents don't know what existence they are selling their children into."
Zhou Zhou has pinned her hopes on her stepfather. She gives this message to take to him: 'Please come and get me. My life here is so bitter.'
We track her stepfather down to a village in Henan, an hour's flight south of Beijing and a world away from China's economic miracle. This is dirt-poor country.
Gao Jie Liang, standing in his cramped and muddy farmyard, is slightly built and 5ft tall. No way could he stand up to 'uncle' - even if he wanted to. He seems to have no regrets, except to believe that he sold Zhou Zhou too cheaply. She was a burden, he says. She wanted to leave, and it is common for the parents of disabled children to offload them in this way.
The last we see of his stepdaughter is close to Tiananmen Square as night falls. Her 'uncle' is about to pick her up. Zhou Zhou will hand over the day's takings, and she'll be back here tomorrow. There is no other place for her to go.
· John Ray is ITV News China Correspondent. His report will be shown on the ITV Evening News at 6.30pm on Monday.
China's disabled children are sold into slavery as beggars
As Beijing prepares for the Olympics, racketeers live well off their street army of exploited teenagers
John Ray in Beijing
Sunday July 22, 2007
The Observer
Nature Has not been kind to Gao Zhou Zhou - though not as cruel as other human beings. Her back is bent and bowed; her legs fold uselessly beneath her. She gets around using a homemade skateboard. Her arms, legs and face are very, very dirty. She doesn't know her age - she looks perhaps 15 - and she cannot remember her real parents. But she knows the pain of life on the streets of Beijing. 'When I first came here they beat me so hard I nearly died. They beat me and they beat me,' she says.
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It was three years ago when a man she calls 'uncle' came to her village. There was a cash transaction with her stepfather, who was promised the equivalent of £150 in instalments. In the land of the rampant capitalist, this was just another business deal.
Since then, most days from early morning to nightfall, she has been hunched over her pitch - a patch of pavement close to Tiananmen Square, amid the crowds of tourists and shoppers. Most don't offer a second glance. Some pause long enough to place a few notes into the tin she holds out. On a good day she earns 300 yuan (£20). It goes to 'uncle'.
'The man who took me here is a very powerful man. Everybody in the village is scared of him. He can chop off anybody's arm or leg. Whatever he wants. He's got men all over China. He told me he will find me wherever I go.'
This is not an isolated story. Another girl, born with a curved spine and legs that can carry her only in a spider-like walk, tells us how she was sold into what amounted to a life of slavery in Beijing. Yang Ping says: 'On the first day I only earned 20 yuan from begging. They beat me up'. She starts to cry: 'Can we not talk about this?'
Ping is one of six, five of them girls. She wanted to make a living and her family needed the money. Two years ago, she was lured to Beijing with the promise of a job in a toy factory. Her parents were promised £20 a month.
Arriving in the city, she was told the factory had gone bankrupt and she was forced to beg for her keepers. 'When they played mahjong and lost a few hundred yuan, there would be no food for a start. And then they would show us violence, just like that. They kicked me on the ground and beat me with a belt. They bought nice clothes and had nice cars. I had nothing.'
In a country still in shock from this summer's unprecedented public soul-searching over the slave labour used in brick factories, the sale of children, often disabled, to work as beggars is yet another scandal the authorities will have to tackle. Next year Beijing will be both Olympic and Paralympic city. What plans are there to clear the streets of the thousands who make a living from them?
The Beijing government refused to say. But charity workers and officials say the authorities have not yet worked out a plan - at least not one they can talk about. Most observers believe the beggars will be cleaned out, one way or the other. And that would be tough on Li Ji Hai and his wife.
A middle-aged couple, they live in a shabby corner of Beijing and live off the earnings of beggars. One is a baby boy who barely stirs during our visit. 'He's sick,' Li tells us. 'We found him by the roadside in March.' The other is a teenager - from the same province as Zhou Zhou. They say they bought him for a few hundred yuan. Each day they send him out to beg on their behalf.
Li walks across the room and grabs the boy's legs. He shakes them around to demonstrate that he is paralysed from the waist down. 'I know it's illegal,' Li admits. 'But begging has a long history in China. There's nothing to hide. Everybody has to make a living.'
According to Kate Wedgwood, the outgoing China director of Save the Children, it is part of a much bigger phenomenon. Amid the huge tide of Chinese workers moving from country to city, as many as a million children have become separated from their parents. Perhaps 150,000 are looked after by the state; the rest, presumably, are fending for themselves. 'A lot of it is about ignorance,' said Wedgwood. 'Often the parents don't know what existence they are selling their children into."
Zhou Zhou has pinned her hopes on her stepfather. She gives this message to take to him: 'Please come and get me. My life here is so bitter.'
We track her stepfather down to a village in Henan, an hour's flight south of Beijing and a world away from China's economic miracle. This is dirt-poor country.
Gao Jie Liang, standing in his cramped and muddy farmyard, is slightly built and 5ft tall. No way could he stand up to 'uncle' - even if he wanted to. He seems to have no regrets, except to believe that he sold Zhou Zhou too cheaply. She was a burden, he says. She wanted to leave, and it is common for the parents of disabled children to offload them in this way.
The last we see of his stepdaughter is close to Tiananmen Square as night falls. Her 'uncle' is about to pick her up. Zhou Zhou will hand over the day's takings, and she'll be back here tomorrow. There is no other place for her to go.
· John Ray is ITV News China Correspondent. His report will be shown on the ITV Evening News at 6.30pm on Monday.
Friday, July 20, 2007
கம்யூனிஸ தொழிலாளர் சர்வாதிகாரத்தின் கீழ் அடிமைமுறை
எல்லோரும் எதிர்பார்த்ததுபோலவே கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி தலைவரது மகனால் நடத்தப்பட்ட செங்கல் சூளையில் அவரை மட்டும் விட்டுவிட்டு தீர்ப்பு வழங்கபப்ட்டுள்ளது.
கம்யூனிஸ தொழிலாளர் சர்வாதிகாரம்...
என்ன எழவோ
China slavery verdict angers families
The kiln owner in the case, the son of a Communist Party official, 'got off too easy,' one victim's father says.
By Ching-Ching Ni, Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2007
BEIJING — Family and friends reacted with anger Wednesday after the owner of a kiln operated with slaves who were beaten and forced to work long days was sentenced to nine years in prison even as two aides received far harsher punishment.
Kiln owner Wang Bingbing, the son of a local Communist Party official, was convicted Tuesday of unlawful detention for the use of slave laborers at his brick kiln in Shanxi province.
The supervisor of his plant, Zhao Yanbing, received the death penalty after he was convicted of beating a mentally impaired man to death with a shovel because he wasn't working hard enough. Foreman Heng Tinghan, found guilty of intentionally injuring workers and illegal detention, received a life sentence.
"We are very angry. This sentence is too lenient," said Zhang Shanlin, father of a young man so badly beaten and burned that he cannot walk without assistance. "The owner got off too easy. Without him, how could they have enslaved so many people?"
The case, which came to light last month after hundreds of fathers seeking missing children believed to have been sold into slavery pleaded for help on the Internet, exposed the widespread use of slaves at kiln operations in central China.
Tuesday's sentencing came a week after Beijing executed the country's top food and drug safety official for taking bribes and approving fake medicines sold at home and abroad.
Worried about the latest scandal's potential to further tarnish the country's reputation, officials have cracked down on 7,500 small kilns across north-central China and slapped more than a dozen kiln owners and foremen with jail terms.
"The scandal is a blot on socialist China which we must wipe out," said Shanxi Provincial Court Vice President Liu Jimin.
Chinese media have reported that as many as 1,000 minors had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in rural kilns. Officials say only about a dozen child laborers had been freed in the recent raids, leading some critics to say that the true extent of the scandal is being covered up.
"You can see the major massaging of statistics," said Robin Munro, research director at China Labor Bulletin, a watchdog group based in Hong Kong.
An additional 95 mostly lower-level officials have been disciplined for dereliction of duty in the brick kiln slavery case, with penalties such as removal from office and expulsion from the Communist Party.
Officials say the size of the dragnet shows an unprecedented commitment to justice, but critics and victims' families say it lets bigger fish off the hook.
"These guys are scapegoats," said Zhang Xiaoying, the mother of a 15-year-old boy who had been enslaved and rescued. She is not related to Zhang Shanlin. "They are hired hands. They were just following orders."
Victims of Wang's kiln operation said he relied on his father's clout and bribed police to ignore abuses.
"It's inconceivable that slave labor and gross physical abuse on the scale it's been reported could possibly have gone on without full knowledge of local officials," said Munro. "My guess is too many officials are involved — prosecuting them all would be even worse for the government's image."
"This is about local protectionism," Zhang Shanlin said. "The government should make an example of this by striking down hard."
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கம்யூனிஸ தொழிலாளர் சர்வாதிகாரம்...
என்ன எழவோ
China slavery verdict angers families
The kiln owner in the case, the son of a Communist Party official, 'got off too easy,' one victim's father says.
By Ching-Ching Ni, Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2007
BEIJING — Family and friends reacted with anger Wednesday after the owner of a kiln operated with slaves who were beaten and forced to work long days was sentenced to nine years in prison even as two aides received far harsher punishment.
Kiln owner Wang Bingbing, the son of a local Communist Party official, was convicted Tuesday of unlawful detention for the use of slave laborers at his brick kiln in Shanxi province.
The supervisor of his plant, Zhao Yanbing, received the death penalty after he was convicted of beating a mentally impaired man to death with a shovel because he wasn't working hard enough. Foreman Heng Tinghan, found guilty of intentionally injuring workers and illegal detention, received a life sentence.
"We are very angry. This sentence is too lenient," said Zhang Shanlin, father of a young man so badly beaten and burned that he cannot walk without assistance. "The owner got off too easy. Without him, how could they have enslaved so many people?"
The case, which came to light last month after hundreds of fathers seeking missing children believed to have been sold into slavery pleaded for help on the Internet, exposed the widespread use of slaves at kiln operations in central China.
Tuesday's sentencing came a week after Beijing executed the country's top food and drug safety official for taking bribes and approving fake medicines sold at home and abroad.
Worried about the latest scandal's potential to further tarnish the country's reputation, officials have cracked down on 7,500 small kilns across north-central China and slapped more than a dozen kiln owners and foremen with jail terms.
"The scandal is a blot on socialist China which we must wipe out," said Shanxi Provincial Court Vice President Liu Jimin.
Chinese media have reported that as many as 1,000 minors had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in rural kilns. Officials say only about a dozen child laborers had been freed in the recent raids, leading some critics to say that the true extent of the scandal is being covered up.
"You can see the major massaging of statistics," said Robin Munro, research director at China Labor Bulletin, a watchdog group based in Hong Kong.
An additional 95 mostly lower-level officials have been disciplined for dereliction of duty in the brick kiln slavery case, with penalties such as removal from office and expulsion from the Communist Party.
Officials say the size of the dragnet shows an unprecedented commitment to justice, but critics and victims' families say it lets bigger fish off the hook.
"These guys are scapegoats," said Zhang Xiaoying, the mother of a 15-year-old boy who had been enslaved and rescued. She is not related to Zhang Shanlin. "They are hired hands. They were just following orders."
Victims of Wang's kiln operation said he relied on his father's clout and bribed police to ignore abuses.
"It's inconceivable that slave labor and gross physical abuse on the scale it's been reported could possibly have gone on without full knowledge of local officials," said Munro. "My guess is too many officials are involved — prosecuting them all would be even worse for the government's image."
"This is about local protectionism," Zhang Shanlin said. "The government should make an example of this by striking down hard."
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chingching.ni@latimes.com
Thursday, July 12, 2007
சீனாவில் செங்கள் சூளை அடிமைமுறை காரணமாக வழக்கு
செங்கல் சூளைகளில் அடிமைகளை வைத்து வேலை செய்யவைத்ததற்காக செங்கள் சூளை சொந்தக்காரர்கள் மீது வழக்கு.
இதில் ஆச்சரியமற்ற விஷயம் என்னவென்றால், அந்த செங்கல் சூளை எஜமானர்கள் கம்யூனிஸ அதிகாரிகள்தான் என்பதுதான்.
China puts 26 on trial in new slavery case
The Associated PressPublished: July 11, 2007
BEIJING: Another 26 people accused of using slave labor at brick kilns went on trial Wednesday in the latest case stemming from a scandal that captivated China, a state news agency reported.
The defendants went on trial in four courts in the northern province of Shanxi on charges of "forcing laborers to work for them in unspeakable conditions," the Xinhua News Agency said. It identified only one defendant, Yang Xiaohong, and gave no details of their cases.
There was no word on what penalty the defendants might face if convicted, but Xinhua said four were accused of intentionally injuring workers, a charge that can carry more severe punishment.
The scandal erupted after hundreds of parents complained their children were being forced to work in brick kilns in Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in northern China.
Since then, state media say police have raided thousands of brick factories, freeing more than 850 children and adults and arresting dozens of kiln employees and local officials accused of helping them.
Chinese leaders rushed to assure the public that the government was taking action, and Premier Wen Jiabao ordered a thorough investigation and punishment for officials who abetted kiln owners.
Twelve people went on trial last week in the first case stemming from the scandal. No verdict has been announced.
இதில் ஆச்சரியமற்ற விஷயம் என்னவென்றால், அந்த செங்கல் சூளை எஜமானர்கள் கம்யூனிஸ அதிகாரிகள்தான் என்பதுதான்.
China puts 26 on trial in new slavery case
The Associated PressPublished: July 11, 2007
BEIJING: Another 26 people accused of using slave labor at brick kilns went on trial Wednesday in the latest case stemming from a scandal that captivated China, a state news agency reported.
The defendants went on trial in four courts in the northern province of Shanxi on charges of "forcing laborers to work for them in unspeakable conditions," the Xinhua News Agency said. It identified only one defendant, Yang Xiaohong, and gave no details of their cases.
There was no word on what penalty the defendants might face if convicted, but Xinhua said four were accused of intentionally injuring workers, a charge that can carry more severe punishment.
The scandal erupted after hundreds of parents complained their children were being forced to work in brick kilns in Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in northern China.
Since then, state media say police have raided thousands of brick factories, freeing more than 850 children and adults and arresting dozens of kiln employees and local officials accused of helping them.
Chinese leaders rushed to assure the public that the government was taking action, and Premier Wen Jiabao ordered a thorough investigation and punishment for officials who abetted kiln owners.
Twelve people went on trial last week in the first case stemming from the scandal. No verdict has been announced.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
சீனாவில் அடிமைத்தொழிலாளர்கள் பிரச்னை வலுக்கிறது
அடிமைகளாக இருந்தவர்களிடமும் அவாகளது உறவினர்களிடமும் எதுவும் பேசக்கூடாது என்று சீன அதிகாரிகள் அச்சுருத்தி வருகிறார்கள்.
தற்போதைய சட்டத்தின்படி, அடிமைகளாக வைத்திருந்த கம்யூனிஸ எஜமானர்களுக்கு 3 அல்லது 4 வருடம் சிறைதண்டனையே கிடைக்கும். இது போதாது என்று வழக்குறைஞர்கள் வாதாடி வருகின்றனர்.
இந்த செங்கல் ஆலையில் 53000 சீன அடிமைத்தொழிலாளர்கள் வேலை செய்துவந்தனர்.
Authorities in damage-control mode over slavery to repair China’s image
The authorities are putting pressure on parents and victims’ lawyers not to talk about their relatives’ enslavement to the press. Under existing legislation culprits can get only three to seven years in prison
Beijing (AsiaNews) – Beijing has stepped up a massive damage-control operation to bury the brick kiln slavery scandal. But the All-China Lawyers' Association has called for a new anti-slavery law.
The discovery of human trafficking involving adults and children abducted in Henan and Shanxi and forced to work in mines or brick kilns has shocked public opinion both in China and around the world. Increasingly there appears to be something quite sinister about China’s rise to big power status.
Government officials have tried to silence those involved, mass media and especially victims’ parents, in order to limit the damages to China’s international reputation. According to witnesses who spoke to the South China Morning Post, parents are in fact coming under pressure from the government to avoid talking to journalists about their searches and discoveries.
Lawyers representing victims in legal actions against slave factory owners have also been told not to talk to reporters.
In one case media reports said the first trial had begun without victims being told. This trial involves Wang Bingbing, the owner of a brick kiln in Caosheng village and son of the local party boss, and his foreman Heng Tinghan. Both have been charged with illegal detention and murder for the death of at least one worker.
Parents and media have questioned why child abuse was not included in the charges against the defendants since many of the slaves were under age.
Kiln owner Wang Bingbing’s father Wang Dongji, continues to insist he was unaware of the forced labour. However, many parents have testified that he used to visit the kiln.
Both Wangs were expelled from the Party.
Thanks to Shanxi Governor Yu Youjun’s newly found zeal in law enforcement, a crackdown on brick kilns and human traffickers should be concluded by the middle of this month.
Parents are complaining however that despite inspections their children have not yet been found, some years after they disappeared.
At the same time the All-China Lawyers' Association sent a letter to the National People's Congress Standing Committee, asking that a new forced-labour law with tougher penalties be introduced. None of the existing rules explicitly covers slavery. In fact under existing legislation, forced labour is only punished with three years in jail, seven if children are involved.
தற்போதைய சட்டத்தின்படி, அடிமைகளாக வைத்திருந்த கம்யூனிஸ எஜமானர்களுக்கு 3 அல்லது 4 வருடம் சிறைதண்டனையே கிடைக்கும். இது போதாது என்று வழக்குறைஞர்கள் வாதாடி வருகின்றனர்.
இந்த செங்கல் ஆலையில் 53000 சீன அடிமைத்தொழிலாளர்கள் வேலை செய்துவந்தனர்.
Authorities in damage-control mode over slavery to repair China’s image
The authorities are putting pressure on parents and victims’ lawyers not to talk about their relatives’ enslavement to the press. Under existing legislation culprits can get only three to seven years in prison
Beijing (AsiaNews) – Beijing has stepped up a massive damage-control operation to bury the brick kiln slavery scandal. But the All-China Lawyers' Association has called for a new anti-slavery law.
The discovery of human trafficking involving adults and children abducted in Henan and Shanxi and forced to work in mines or brick kilns has shocked public opinion both in China and around the world. Increasingly there appears to be something quite sinister about China’s rise to big power status.
Government officials have tried to silence those involved, mass media and especially victims’ parents, in order to limit the damages to China’s international reputation. According to witnesses who spoke to the South China Morning Post, parents are in fact coming under pressure from the government to avoid talking to journalists about their searches and discoveries.
Lawyers representing victims in legal actions against slave factory owners have also been told not to talk to reporters.
In one case media reports said the first trial had begun without victims being told. This trial involves Wang Bingbing, the owner of a brick kiln in Caosheng village and son of the local party boss, and his foreman Heng Tinghan. Both have been charged with illegal detention and murder for the death of at least one worker.
Parents and media have questioned why child abuse was not included in the charges against the defendants since many of the slaves were under age.
Kiln owner Wang Bingbing’s father Wang Dongji, continues to insist he was unaware of the forced labour. However, many parents have testified that he used to visit the kiln.
Both Wangs were expelled from the Party.
Thanks to Shanxi Governor Yu Youjun’s newly found zeal in law enforcement, a crackdown on brick kilns and human traffickers should be concluded by the middle of this month.
Parents are complaining however that despite inspections their children have not yet been found, some years after they disappeared.
At the same time the All-China Lawyers' Association sent a letter to the National People's Congress Standing Committee, asking that a new forced-labour law with tougher penalties be introduced. None of the existing rules explicitly covers slavery. In fact under existing legislation, forced labour is only punished with three years in jail, seven if children are involved.
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