China shelter 'sold 70 disabled people into slavery'

[Lars77]

Beijing: The operator of an unlicensed shelter for disabled people in southwest China sold at least 70 mentally ill workers into slavery in recent years, local authorities told state press on Wednesday.

Investigators made the discovery after China's latest slave labour scandal erupted this week when authorities shut down a factory in Xinjiang in the nation's west where 11 workers sold by the shelter had been enslaved for years.

"Since 1996, Zeng Lingquan has sent at least 70 mentally disabled people to work in Beijing, Tianjin and other cities," the China Daily quoted Yi Hongqu, a county-level civil affairs official in Sichuan province, as saying.

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[notadmblnd]

1. But we're supposed to compete with China?

[Taverner]

2. Exactly

[KT2000]

3. Wonder if the products

they made were bound for the US.
We need a certification program to make sure this is not being done to satisfy the walmart type businesses that always demanding cheaper goods.

[jwirr]

4. This must be their idea of a sheltered workshop.