|
Police recover 13 bonded labourers from 'private jail' near Nagarparkar
[DAWN] Police on Wednesday recovered 13 bonded individuals who had allegedly been kept in illegal confinement for five years in a private jail in the village of Ramji Kohli near Nagarparkar.A police team headed by Station House Officer (SHO) Nagarpakar Abdul Razak Umrani, in a court-ordered raid in the village on the suspected private jail of Rahim Ali Khoso, recovered the labourers, including four women and five children. Dharmoon Kohli had petitioned the court seeking liberation of his family members. He told journalists that his family members had allegedly been kept in confinement and forced to work without any share in their agricultural yield. The recovered individuals alleged that the women among them had been victims of sexual harassment by the landowner and his relatives. The SHO said that they would be produced in the Sindh High Court on Thursday as per the court's orders. Pakistain is among the countries with the highest number of bonded labourers in the world. In a 2015 Dawn report, Green Rural Development Organisation's Dr Ghulam Haider had said that over 2.3 million people are facing bonded labour, with over 80 per cent of them being Hindus. Posted by: Fred 2017-12-14 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=503644 |