News media in China are reporting that a 25-year-old employee [Sun Danyong] of Foxconn (part of Hon Hai), which manufactures products for Apple there, committed suicide last week after being interrogated about a missing prototype for a new iPhone...Some publications reported that, in the days prior to his suicide, Sun had been detained and beaten by a senior official in the security department of the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant...Foxconn could not be reached for comment. But some reports quoted a statement from Foxconn’s general manager Li Jinming, who apologized for what happened and attributed the incident to a lack of management. He added that the official who had questioned Sun has been suspended and is under investigation by the police. A spokesman for Apple said, “We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death. We require that our suppliers treat all workers with dignity and respect.”