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Slave labor: Raids free 568 people in China
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Aug 28 08
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Regions: China
Issues: Child labor, Human trafficking, Slavery & forced labor
Tags: child labor, china, forced labor, slavery
This video contains graphic footage of human rights abuses
Police have detained 168 people linked to a human-trafficking network supplying slave labour to mines and brick works in northern and central China, the state Xinhua news agency reports.
A total of 568 people were freed from slavery in brick kilns and illegal mines in a series of raids on sites in Shanxi and central Henan provinces. Paul Allen reports. (June 17, 2007)
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