Men probing Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Erika Kinetz, Associated Press
Updated 5:19 pm, Tuesday, May 30, 2017


SHANGHAI (AP) — A man investigating working conditions at a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes has been arrested and two others are missing, the arrested man's wife and an advocacy group said Tuesday.

Hua Haifeng was accused of illegal surveillance, according to his wife, Deng Guilian, who said the police called her Tuesday afternoon. Deng said the caller told her she didn't need to know the details, only that she would not be able to see, speak with or receive money from her husband, the family's breadwinner.
 
China Labor Watch Executive Director Li Qiang said he lost contact with Hua Haifeng and the other two men, Li Zhao and Su Heng, over the weekend. By Tuesday, after dozens of unanswered calls, he had concluded: "They must be held either by the factory or the police to be unreachable."
 
China Labor Watch, a New York-based nonprofit, was planning to publish a report next month alleging low pay, excessive overtime and the possible misuse of student interns. It is unclear whether the undercover investigative methods used by the advocacy group are legal in China.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Men-probing-Ivanka-Trump-supplier-in-China-11183403.php

[Marthe48]

1. I hope the 3 men turn up safe

don't think disappearances and false imprisonment can't happen anywhere else.

[riversedge]

2. k for visibility

[Leghorn21]

3. K&R. thank you, Judi n/t

[onecent]

4. K&R

[heaven05]

5. anything

related to any trump has the stink of corruption, con, murder and just plain grift. I hope the three remain alive. I am sure with the money that this trump can pass around, they might never show up again.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Scary shit

[zentrum]

7. K&R

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Kick for exposure n/t

[niyad]

9. k and r

[Madam45for2923]

10. This is creepy & horrible! Ivanka better find those people alive.

Makes me so angry this story.

[Igel]

11. It's also biased.

The investigation was pro-worker. The target was chosen not to unmask some bad Trumperie but because of the millions of units produced there under contract a few percent went Ivanka-ward.

Then perhaps the Chinese would be pressured to clean up a part of the usual abusive conditions, if not bring attention to overall conditions. And this would happen fairly quietly.

Instead of that it's being viewed as anti-Trump commentary. It's probably as likely the work will dry up and the abused workers laid off as things will improve. I wonder if the arrests hint that some government backing is behind the company, or at least some Chinese "oligarch".

[not fooled]

12. Who thinks it was a coincidence

that the missing men were probing misconduct relating to a dump family member?

Me neither.


Mighty convenient for the con and his clan.

[Madam45for2923]

13. She better make a statement & help these men ASAP as in Yesterday.

Gosh this family is just so gross!