Police Admonish Foxconn Snoop

An activist who got a job at Foxconn in order to investigate working conditions there has been detained by Guangzhou police. From Global Times:

Zhu, 36, said he was in a hotel room in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province when several police officers stormed in at around 1 am Sunday and took him away for “disturbing the social order” and then released him after 18 hours of interrogation.

Zhu did not offer details about the questioning but said he did not disturb the social order.

Zhu and several other volunteers got jobs at the factory in order to conduct a secret investigation about how workers are treated.

They had originally planned to spend more time in the Foxconn factory and publish more reports, Zhu told the Beijing Evening News earlier. He declined to explain why he spent just a few days in the factory.

Zhu said that the officers confiscated his personal computer and one he used in his office. He was also asked to sign an agreement and guarantee that he would not publish any Foxconn-related information or organize such a group in the future.

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