Brussels, 11/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - Simon Coveney (EPP-ED, Ireland) and British Conservative Charles Tannock have called for a EU-wide ban on imports of products made in Chinese forced labour camps or Laogai (meaning 'education by labour'). In a press release, they note that nearly all EU States probably unknowingly import products from such camps where “inmates work for up to 16 hours a day seven days a week, without pay, for the profit of the Communist Party”.
Mr Tannock recalls...