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Sweatshop probe called a ‘sham’

Myanmar workers say officials took just one day to conclude no laws were broken at Mae Sot garment factory

Workers from Myanmar submit visa applications at the Tak Immigration Office in Mae Sot. Thousands more cross the border illegally each year and many end up working in sweatshops where labour laws are ignored and wages well below the minimum.

Police have have been accused of conducting a “sham” investigation into alleged forced labour at a Mae Sot garment factory that formerly supplied the Tesco retail chain, after officials took just one day to conclude no laws were broken.

The workers made the allegations in interviews with The Guardian, the British newspaper that first broke the story of…

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