Guest World News Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 [attach=full]10164[/attach]By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese labor activist has been freed after being detained for more than two days by security agents who he says tried to convince him not to make contact with workers involved in China's biggest strike in years. Zhang Zhiru's brief detention underscores nervousness among officials about the strike, which began on April 14 at a Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd shoe manufacturing complex that employs some 40,000 workers in the southern industrial city of Dongguan. A colleague of Zhang's at the Shenzhen Chunfeng Labour Dispute Service Center, which he runs, was detained separately on Tuesday and has not been released, Zhang told Reuters by telephone on Friday. Labor activists say the strike is one of China's biggest since market reforms started in the late 1970s. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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