China Denies Using Convict Labor in Overseas Projects
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China said a report by an Indian scholar alleging that the country sends prisoners overseas to work on construction projects was “pure nonsense.”
China’s Ministry of Commerce issued the denial in a statement on its website after an editorial by New Delhi-based scholar Brahma Chellaney was carried by several global newspapers in the past month, including the Guardian, the Washington Times and Canada’s Globe and Mail, ministry spokesman Chen Rongkai said in an interview.