Activists investigating Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing

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Activists investigating Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing

Li Zhao, seen here in March 2016, is one of three men arrested after investigating conditions at a Chinese factory that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes. (Deng Guilian/via AP)
 By Simon Denyer May 31

BEIJING — A labor activist researching working conditions in a Chinese factory that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump’s label has been detained by police, according to his wife and a labor advocacy group, while two others have gone missing and are presumed also to have been detained.

The three activists were investigating labor conditions at Huajian shoe factories for China Labor Watch, a New York-based nonprofit organization that aims to defend workers’ rights.

Huajian has previously said it has been making shoes for the U.S. president’s daughter for nearly a decade, accounting for one-third of her shoes made in China but only a small proportion of its total output.

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/activists-investigating-ivanka-trump-brands-in-china-arrested-missing/2017/05/30/a6cb90f8-459e-11e7-b08b-1818ab401a7f_story.html?utm_term=.8602b4569bfd

I'm not sure if this was covered anywhere and other news outlets besides the Washington Post have run articles on this.  Maybe he has been detained, not sure of the details.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/business/labor-activist-detained-ivanka-trump-factory.html

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Of course the WaPo headline is misleading.  They were investigating the factory because of working conditions, not because of any link to Trump.  One wonders how many left-wing shoe mavens also have their shoes made in this factory.