Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/24
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei, May 24 (CNA) A Greenpeace report released Thursday identified four
Greenpeace publishes a report with photos of Indonesian fisherman Supriyanto, who died on board Taiwanese fishing boat Fu Tsz Chiun in 2015, to link human rights abuses to Taiwan’s international fishing fleet (photo courtesy of Greenpeace).
Taiwanese men convicted of human trafficking in the fishing sector in Cambodia in 2014 who are currently working as brokers for migrant fishermen in Taiwan after fleeing justice.
In the report titled “Misery at Sea,” Greenpeace presented evidence related to three high-profile cases involving trafficking and abuse of migrant crew members to highlight the failure of Taiwan’s authorities to address the issue.
Greenpeace investigated the whereabouts of five Taiwanese men who originally worked at the defunct Giant Ocean International Co., a recruitment agency in Cambodia.
The men were sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking more than 1,000 Cambodians to work in slave-like conditions on fishing boats, but fled to Taiwan before serving their sentences. [FULL STORY]
