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    Activists investigating Ivanka Trump factories in China detained missing.

    The whole Trump clan is just creepy if you ask me.

    Activists investigating Ivanka Trump's China shoe factory detained or missing
    Three men from New York-based rights group China Labor Watch were looking at conditions at plant where Trump shoes are assembled
    Workers at the Huajian shoe factory, where about 100,000 pairs of Ivanka Trump-branded shoes have been made over the years among other brands.

    A labour activist working undercover investigating abuses at a Chinese factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes has been detained by police and two others are missing, raising concerns the company’s ties to the US president’s family may have led to harsher treatment.

    Hua Haifeng was being held by police on suspicion of illegal surveillance, his wife Deng Guilian said. Hua had worked for labour rights organisations for more than a decade and was investigating a factory in southern Guangdong province for New York-based rights group China Labor Watch.

    Hua, 36, attempted to travel to Hong Kong last week but was stopped at the border. He was later questioned by police in Shenzhen, a city on the border with Hong Kong, and was released. He then traveled to Jiangxi province and disappeared, before his wife was notified by police.

    “I was scared when the police called me, I was shaking with a mix of fear and anger,” Deng told the Guardian, adding she was worried she would be unable to support their two young children as well as three elderly relatives without his income.

    The case highlights the political sensitivity of a brand associated with the family of Donald Trump, who repeatedly bashed China for taking American jobs on the campaign trail but has since cosied up to president Xi Jinping.

    Trump himself has been granted dozens of trademarks in China since becoming president, and relatives of Jared Kushner, an advisor to the president, were recently caught trying to entice wealthy investors into luxury developments, with the prospect of receiving US green cards in return.

    Foreign NGOs have also come under increased scrutiny since Xi came to power in 2012, and a newly enacted law requires groups that operate in the country to register with the police.

    Two other men, Li Zhao and Su Heng, had investigated a factory in Jiangxi province that assembles Ivanka Trump shoes and were still missing on Wednesday, said Li Qiang, executive director of China Labor Watch. He believes they have been detained by police or are being held at the factory.

    “I think they were detained because this factory makes products for Ivanka Trump, so now this situation has become political and very complicated,” said Li. “I appeal to President Trump, Ivanka Trump herself, and to her brand to advocate and press for the release our activists.”

    The undercover activists were to allege a host of labour violations at the plant, Li said, including paying below China’s legal minimum wage, managers verbally abusing workers and “violations of women’s rights”.

    Li said he contacted the Ivanka Trump brand on April 27 to inform them of the labour violations, and urged them to ensure their suppliers were complying with Chinese law, but no changes were made.

    The Ivanka Trump brand declined to comment when contacted by the Guardian. A woman who answered the phone at the Ganzhou, Jiangxi public security bureau said only, “I’m busy now,” before hanging up.

    Calls to Huajian Group, the owner of the factory, went unanswered and staff at the factory where the three activists had gone undercover said they were not aware of the case.

    Huajian also manufactures products for Coach, Karl Lagerfeld and Kendall + Kylie at the factory where the activists went undercover.

    “Over the last 17 years, we have conducted hundreds of investigations in factories across China, this is the first time any our investigators have been detained,” Li added. “The accusation from Jiangxi police has no factual basis.

    Activists are usually simply ejected from the factory, or in the worst case questioned by police before being set free. China Labor Watch has previously gone undercover in Apple and Samsung plants in China, without incident.

    Li Zhao, one of the missing activists, was telephoned by police before he disappeared, but was not asked to report for questioning. He worked at the same factory as Hua in Guangdong, but was fired after five days for taking photos on his mobile phone. He then went to Jiangxi and disappeared.
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    Bollocks headline, just put her name there to draw publicity.

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    America First.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wasabi View Post
    Bollocks headline, just put her name there to draw publicity.
    What are you talking about? People who have inspected hundreds of factories in China without incident are detained and gone missing after inspecting Trumps daughters factory. Doesn't that seem suspicious to you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by wasabi View Post
    Bollocks headline, just put her name there to draw publicity.
    What are you talking about? People who have inspected hundreds of factories in China without incident are detained and gone missing after inspecting Trumps daughters factory. Doesn't that seem suspicious to you?
    Doesn't say anywhere that it's her factory, just a contractor.

    She probably doesn't even know the place, management of all companies contract all sorts of stuff throughout the world, just a headline to get attention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by wasabi View Post
    Bollocks headline, just put her name there to draw publicity.
    What are you talking about? People who have inspected hundreds of factories in China without incident are detained and gone missing after inspecting Trumps daughters factory. Doesn't that seem suspicious to you?
    Doesn't say anywhere that it's her factory, just a contractor.

    She probably doesn't even know the place, management of all companies contract all sorts of stuff throughout the world, just a headline to get attention.
    Yes but this factory just happens to contract to Ivanka Trump and This factory just happens to be the ONE time in over a decade of doing this that the activists have been dissappeared.
    Coincidence? Maybe.

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    There's a big money reward in China for exposing foreign spies, my money on them activists being US agents.

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    Chinese Labor Activist Who Probed Ivanka Trump Supplier 'Meets With Accident' in Detention

    Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi said on Monday that one of three labor activists detained after they investigated working practices at two factories supplying shoes for Ivanka Trump's own brand, has "met with an accident," his lawyer told RFA on Monday.

    Hua Haifeng, Li Zhao and Su Heng were detained on suspicion of "illegal use of monitoring equipment," and are currently being held in the Ganzhou Detention Center in Jiangxi's Ganzhou city, lawyer Wen Yu, who was hired by Hua's wife to represent him, said.

    "I went there today to apply to meet with my client, but they said Hua Haifeng had met with an accident in his cell, and I couldn't see him," Wen said.

    "The head of the detention center told me to get in contact with the agency in charge of the case, so I went to the police station for the Ganzhou Economic & Technological Development Zone, and they told me that the state security police officer in charge was away on business," he said.

    "They said I had better go and meet with my client as soon as possible, so I went back to the detention center, whereupon the state security police officer in charge of the case reappeared," Wen said.

    "He told me that they were arraigning Hua, and that I wouldn't be able to meet with him until after the arraignment."

    Flimsy excuse?

    But Wen, who was unable to confirm the details of Hua's "accident," said he believed the arraignment was a flimsy excuse.

    "They were just stripping him of his right to see a lawyer," he said.

    According to the U.S.-based rights group China Labor Watch, Hua, Li and Su had been investigating labor conditions at factories that produce shoes for Ivanka Trump, the daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, and other Western brands.

    "We appeal to President Trump, Ivanka Trump herself, and to her related brand company to advocate and press for the release our activists," the group said in an email to Reuters last week.

    Wen made a similar appeal on Monday.

    "I hope that either Ivanka Trump or the U.S. government will ask the Chinese embassy to clarify the situation, especially whether or not Ivanka Trump has ordered clothing or shoes from this factory in Ganzhou," he said.

    "Also, whether or not they had anything to do with the detention of these people, who were working to protect the rights of [Chinese] workers," he said.

    Reuters also reported that the Ivanka Trump brand declined to comment when contacted last week, while Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she did know anything about the situation.

    Collective bargaining

    Rights group Amnesty International called for the release of the three if they were held only for investigating possible labor abuses at the factories.

    "Activists exposing potential human rights abuses deserve protection not persecution," China researcher William Nee said.

    "The trio appear to be the latest to fall foul of the Chinese authorities’ aggressive campaign against human rights activists who have any ties to overseas organizations, using the pretense of 'national security'."

    In April, labor activist Han Dongfang hit out at foreign brands for not paying closer attention to pay and conditions for Chinese workers in their supply chain.

    He said the government's jailing of four labor rights activists from the Panyu Workers' Service Center in the southern province of Guangdong last year was the first time the government had retaliated on behalf of a business.

    The activists had been "assisting workers to engage management in a successful case of collective bargaining," Han said in a report published in April.

    "These global brands [supplied by the workers in the dispute] all have ... standards that include clauses on workers’ rights to collective bargaining and freedom of association," Han said.

    "But this time, when workers in China organized themselves and engaged in collective bargaining to ask for their fair share and faced retaliation from the company, these global brands have chosen to look the other way," he said.

    Chinese Labor Activist Who Probed Ivanka Trump Supplier 'Meets With Accident' in Detention

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
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    Bollocks headline, just put her name there to draw publicity.
    What are you talking about? People who have inspected hundreds of factories in China without incident are detained and gone missing after inspecting Trumps daughters factory. Doesn't that seem suspicious to you?
    Doesn't say anywhere that it's her factory, just a contractor.

    She probably doesn't even know the place, management of all companies contract all sorts of stuff throughout the world, just a headline to get attention.
    Yes but this factory just happens to contract to Ivanka Trump and This factory just happens to be the ONE time in over a decade of doing this that the activists have been dissappeared.
    Coincidence? Maybe.
    Yep. This just weeks after Ivanka got a deal when she met Xi.

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    The Chinese filth more than likely boiled the coont up in a pot of stew and eat him.

    They do things like that.

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