The Set up of a Slave Trade

Workers wrote "Beast," "There is no end to my life" and "Sleepless" on the walls of the underground cell in the education camp. /By Niu Guang, Caixin

In December, 12 mentally-ill men were found working at a chemical factory in Toksun County of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Living on animal feed in abject conditions, the men had been purchased as slaves by a farmer from a state-run education camp in Sichuan Province.