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| Labor Rights Activist Arrested While Investigating an Ivanka Trump-Linked China Based Shoe Factory
Three nonprofit workers investigating labor conditions at a Chinese factory making shoes for Ivanka Trump's eponymous fashion brand have been arrested or gone missing. Police arrested labor rights activist Hua Haifeng on suspicion of illegal surveillance, the man's wife told the Associated Press yesterday (May 30). Hua and two colleagues lost contact with their employer China Labor Watch this past weekend, said Li Qiang, who heads the New York-based NGO. He believes authorities are holding all three men incommunicado. The Ivanka Trump brand declined to comment on the matter when contacted by the newswire. The activists were investigating a Jiangxi province-based factory owned by Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City, a subsidiary of the Huajian Group and one of the suppliers for Ivanka Trump's fashion brand. According to Li, the men had documented excessive overtime and a base salary below minimum wage at the factory, and were attempting to confirm evidence of the illegal use of