CHINA: Three Labor Activists Missing Or Arrested After Investigating Factory That Makes Ivanka’s Shoe Line

The International Business Times reports:

Three men investigating a factory which produces shoes for the Ivanka Trump brand, along with several other retailers, have either gone missing or been arrested, it has been reported.

Hua Haifeng, Li Zhao and Su Heng had been probing a factory in Jiangxi province run by Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City Co. where investigators had reportedly seen the manufacture of and the production orders for Ivanka Trump, Nine West, Marc Fisher and Easy Spirit items.

They were last seen in Ganzhou, a large city in southern Jiangxi Province. It is unclear whether the other two were detained. The group had been investigating labor conditions at the two factories, one in Ganzhou and another in Dongguan. Their preliminary findings, which had not yet been made public, detail that workers were subject to exceptionally long hours.

According to other reports, the same activists had investigated reported abuses at Disney and Apple factories without interference by police.