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BEIJING - A CHINESE court has jailed a couple for forcing a group of mentally retarded people to work like slaves at a factory in the north-western region of Xinjiang.
The husband and wife were convicted of forcing 18 mentally handicapped people to work long hours without pay at their factory which makes construction materials since 2006, Xinhua said. The defendants restricted the workers' freedom and beating them.
The Tuokexun county court sentenced Li Xinglin to four and a half years in prison on Saturday on charges of violating the labour law, Xinhua said. His wife, Li Yunhua, was given a two-year jail sentence suspended for three years. The two were fined 50,000 yuan (S$9,430) each.
Last year one worker was accidentally killed, but Li Xinglin did not report the death to police.
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