{"id":29675,"date":"2012-09-12T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29675 "},"modified":"2012-09-12T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T08:18:00","slug":"29675-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29675","title":{"rendered":"China Attempts Violent Eviction of Workers\u2019 Rights Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 10 groups that offer help to the millions of migrant workers living and working in Shenzhen have suffered random inspections and evictions, some of  which turned violent, said the letter seen by AFP on Monday.<\/span><\/p>

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 “Police have failed to prevent labour organisations from being evicted from their offices for unknown reasons, sometimes even violently,” said the letter  signed by 20 scholars and sent to the city and provincial governments Sunday.<\/span><\/div>
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 The Dagongzhe Migrant Worker Centre was one of the first to be caught in the crackdown, with workers evicted from their offices in July after the water  and electricity supply to their office was shut off by local authorities.<\/span><\/div>
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 Another, the Hand in Hand Workers’ Home, was evicted from its offices on  Sunday, while local government staff confiscated property belonging to a group  called The Little Grass Workers’ Home last month, staff there told AFP.<\/span><\/div>
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 Both groups provided services including safety training, legal assistance and psychological counselling to factory workers in the city, whose vast factories are a magnet for workers across China.<\/span><\/div>
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 “There has been a sustained campaign of harassment against NGOs in Shenzhen,” said Geoffrey Crowthall, spokesperson for Hong Kong-based monitoring  group China Labour Bulletin.<\/span><\/div>
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Crowthall said local government was involved in the moves against labour  organisations in Shenzhen, which he called a “misguided attempt by the  government to reorganise or reconfigure NGOs in the city”.<\/span><\/div>
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