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The El Monte slavery victims were forced to work producing garments between seventeen and twenty-two hours a day in two-story apartment complex consisting of seven units, surrounded by a ring of razor wire and iron guardrails with sharp ends pointing inward.  They were intimidated with threats that their family would be harmed and their home in Thailand burned down if they attempted to escape.    

 

 

 

 

  • Beverly Hills Courier: Largest Human Trafficking Case Tied To BH (Beverly Hills) Company, Sep. 10, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • Los Angeles Times:  Thai Workers Describe being Lured into Slavery in U.S., Sep. 10, 2010 ((Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • CNN: Thai Man Says He Was a Modern-Day Slave,  Sep. 8, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • Hawaii News Now:  Man Accused of Human Trafficking Allowed Bail, Sep. 8, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • KITV: Exclusive: Immigration Case May Keep Alleged Human Trafficker In Prison Sep. 8, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • KPCC89.3: Thai Workers Decry Forced Labor Scam by Beverly Hills Firm, Sep. 8, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • Los Angeles Times: Federal Grand Jury Indicts Associates of Beverly Hills Firm in Human-Trafficking Case Sep. 4, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • New York Times:  Indictment Accuses Firm of Exploiting Thai Workers, Sep. 4, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)   
  • KABC: Eye Witness News, Sep. 3, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • CNN:  6 Charged in Human Trafficking Scheme Involving Thai Workers, Sep. 3, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • KPFK Democracy Now:  4 Accused of Coercing 400 Thai Workers into Forced Labor, Sep. 3, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • FOX:  Six Arrested in Largest-Ever US Human Trafficking Case, Sep. 3, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • USA TODAY:  Six Indicted for Alleged Human Trafficking of Thai Workers to USA, Sep. 3, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • KITV Honululu:  Hawaii Home To Largest Human Trafficking Case in US History, Sep. 3, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • KHON2:  Six Charged in Largest Human Trafficking Case in US History, Sep. 3, 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • Mother Jones: Bound for America, May+June 2010 (Thai Farmworkers' Case)
  • Pasadena Star News: Martorell: Human Trafficking Requires a Global Response, Aug. 06, 2010
  • Pasadena Star News: Once-Enslaved Garment Workers Continue Fight, Aug. 2, 2010 (15th Anniversary of the El Monte Case)
  • Los Angeles Times: Theater Review: "Fabric" at Company of Angels, July 15, 2010 (Fabric, El Monte Case)
  • LA Daily News: Survivors of slavery 'still fighting', Feb. 11, 2010
  • LA Times: Human Trafficking Case Ends for 48 Thai Welders, Dec. 8, 2006 (Thai welders case)
  • LA Times: Program to Fight Human Trafficking is Underused, Dec. 19, 2005 (Thai domestic workers case)
  • LA Times: From Virtual Slavery to Being Boss, Oct. 25, 2001 (El Monte slavery case)
  • PBS: Slavery in America, March 8, 2001 (Thai domestic workers case)
  • LA Times: Speaking Up for the Silent, Aug. 23, 1995 (El Monte slavery case)
        
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