Apple, Sony accused of using forced labour of Uighur detainees in China

80,000 people from the ethnic minority interned in Xinjiang camps reported to have been transferred to factories supplying global brands

Hyderabad: 12 stranded in Iraq come home

They had gone to Iraq to work but had been subjected to forced labour, verbal abuse and threats, this newspaper had reported on March 16.

Threatened at gunpoint, 12 held captive in Iraq

A federal grand jury charged Satish Kartan, 43, and his wife Sharmistha Barai, 38, with conspiracy to commit forced labour.

Three men and two boys aged 10-12 were found chained up and were rescued by police on Wednesday.

The Thai government reported an increase in prosecutions and convictions for trafficking and had lobbied hard for an upgrade.

The new report defined forced labour as employment for which the worker had not been recruited freely.

The measure closing the loophole from the Tariff Act of 1930 was included in a wider trade enforcement bill which was signed by Obama.