Slavery Scandal in China: Bad Boss Captured.

By Alex in Crime & Law, Pictures on Jun 17, 2007 at 12:08 pm

A national manhunt in China finally captured Heng Tinghan, the owner of a brick kiln in Shanxi province, who is accused of enslaving his workers:

[Heng] has become a central villain in a national drama over possibly hundreds or more teenage and adult "slaves" forced or cheated into gruelling labour in kilns, mines and foundries across Shanxi and neighbouring Henan province.

When caught in the central province of Hubei, Heng apologised for mistreating workers but denied blame for the death of the mentally impaired man, a Hubei newspaper reported.

"I felt it was a fairly small thing, just hitting and swearing at the workers and not giving them wages," Heng said, according to the Shiyan Evening News. "The dead man had nothing to do with me."

Apparently he thought that “hitting, swearing, and not giving wages” are fairly small things. And you thought your boss was bad! Link


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  1. Rusedal
    Jun 17th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Right, what does this have to do with neatorama again?

  2. Chris
    Jun 17th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    it was posted there.

    :p

  3. SiteSeer
    Jun 17th, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    Is this “Neat”orama or “News”orama? Please stick with the “Neat,” plenty of other outlets for “News.”

  4. aj
    Jun 17th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    you don’t think it’s neat that he was caught?

  5. SiteSeer
    Jun 18th, 2007 at 12:25 am

    Criminals are caught all the time. I just didn’t find this story “neat” in the sense that it is a curiosity or has a feeling of innocent wonderment. Not that that is the definition of neat. Oh well.

  6. Alex
    Jun 18th, 2007 at 1:13 am

    SiteSeer must be new to Neatorama. :)

  7. Ty
    Jun 18th, 2007 at 10:53 am

    I don’t think it’s “neat”, but it’s pretty neatorama.


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