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Rejected petition Ensure UK's offshore companies to grantee freedom from forced labor and cruelty.

Many UK's offshore companies relocated their factories to countries like China, India, Bangladesh etc because of cheap labor, where working conditions are not protected by well-enforced rules, hence working conditions are very bad; workers are often forced to work in cruel environments, no freedom!

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http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240088431/Prison-like-conditions-for-workers-making-IBM-Dell-HP-Microsoft-and-Lenovo-products

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/19/apple-under-fire-again-for-working-conditions-at-chinese-factories

http://www.macworld.com/article/2861381/bbc-documentary-highlights-conditions-at-a-chinese-iphone-factory-but-is-it-all-apples-fault.html

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/inside-chinese-factories/

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