It was discovered [this month] that in Hongtong county, Shanxi province, people kidnapped from rural areas were being forced to work as slaves in a brick kiln... In 1999, a colleague at China Central Television (CCTV) showed me a documentary secretly filmed...[that showed migrant workers detained and] taken to Zhuzhou in Hunan province...[where they] could be bought by farms for 50 renminbi (£3.30) each. They were then forced to work for nothing on the farms.