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25 Jun 2018

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Associated Press

Activists who investigated abuse at Chinese suppliers for Ivanka Trump’s brand released from bail terms

Three China Labour Watch activists arrested last year while investigating abuses at Chinese suppliers for Ivanka Trump’s fashion brand were released from terms of their bail on Tuesday, the New York non-profit group said, but questions remain about their ability to live and work freely in China…

Last May, the activists were arrested and detained for a month as they gathered evidence of low pay and excessive overtime, as well as physical and crude verbal abuse at a Huajian Group shoe factory...Huajian has dismissed those allegations as false and said the men were conducting industrial espionage…

Though the men have been out of jail for a year, under the terms of their bail they have been subject to travel restrictions and police surveillance – conditions that now should be lifted…

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