In 2015, four journalists from the Associated Press (AP) conducted a
year-long investigation into the inhumane treatment of fishermen trapped
on the remote Indonesian island of Benjina. The “Seafood from Slaves”
series of reports1 exposed how seafood sold in American supermarkets
and restaurants came from enslaved and exploited fishermen in Southeast
Asia. More than 2,000 slave workers from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and
Thailand had been tricked into being sold into slavery in Indonesia where
they worked long hours under atrocious conditions2.
1. Associated Press (AP) investigative report series: https://www.ap.org/explore/seafoodfromslaves/, last browsed: June 8, 2021.
2. DQ, Obama: Bans U.S. imports of goods produced by child labor, by Weiduoyu (維多魚),
2016.02.26, source: https://dq.yam.com/post.php?id=5612, last browsed: June 10, 2021.
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