{"id":393559,"date":"2017-05-31T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/31\/undercover-activist-detained-at-ivanka-trump-shoe-supplier\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:02:13","slug":"undercover-activist-detained-at-ivanka-trump-shoe-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/31\/undercover-activist-detained-at-ivanka-trump-shoe-supplier\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover activist detained at Ivanka Trump shoe supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Undercover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Chinese activist has been detained while investigating alleged workers\u2019 rights abuses at a supplier for Ivanka Trump\u2019s shoe brand.<\/p>\n<p>Hua Haifeng was working undercover for the US-based China Labor Watch (CLW), which said he had witnessed examples of forced overtime and wage violations.<\/p>\n<p>Two other activists involved in the investigation are missing, CLW said.<\/p>\n<p>The supplier also makes products for other brands including Karl Lagerfeld, Coach and Nine West, it said.<\/p>\n<p>CLW called on US President Trump to press for the release of Mr Hua.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has demanded the release all three activists, saying the two missing are feared to also have been detained.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanka Trump shoes made in China are thought to have been among the products manufactured at this factory<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trio appear to be the latest to fall foul of the Chinese authorities\u2019 aggressive campaign against human rights activists who have any ties to overseas organizations, using the pretence of \u2018national security\u2019,\u201d William Nee, China researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no comment so far from Chinese authorities, the Trump administration or the Ivanka Trump brand.<br \/>\u2018I was shocked\u2019<\/p>\n<p>CLW said Mr Hua was detained in Jiangxi province on suspicion of illegally using eavesdropping equipment but that this allegation had \u201cno factual basis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s executive director, Li Qiang, told the BBC the firm Mr Hua had been investigating, Huajian Group, had \u201cviolated workers\u2019 rights in ways that included: forced overtime, wages lower than China\u2019s legal minimum wage, managers\u2019 verbal abuse of workers, and violations of women\u2019s rights\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 17 years of investigating Chinese factories it was \u201cthe first time any [of] our investigators have been detained under a criminal process,\u201d Mr Li said.<\/p>\n<p>Coach is said to be another brand produced at the factory<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hua\u2019s wife told the BBC she had lost contact with him on 28 May, but then police contacted her on Tuesday to say he was being held.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked and freaked out,\u201d Deng Guilian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only know that my husband was investigating a factory based in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province. That factory manufactures US president\u2019s daughter\u2019s product,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he was detained for that. Police told me that my husband has been detained for illegal monitoring activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other two men \u2013 named as Li Zhao and Su Heng \u2013 were working undercover at Huajian factories in Dongguan in Guangdong province and in Ganzhou.<\/p>\n<p>China has seen frequent crackdowns on labour rights activists and rights lawyers in recent years, with campaigners being harassed, arrested or jailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese activist has been detained while investigating alleged workers\u2019 rights abuses at a supplier for Ivanka Trump\u2019s shoe brand. 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