Case No 2189 (China) - Complaint date: 27-MAR-02

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF)

Allegations

The complainants allege the use of repressive measures including threats, intimidation, intervention by security forces, beatings, detentions, arrests and other mistreatment meted out to leaders, elected representatives and members of independent workers’ organizations at the Ferrous Alloy Factory (FAF) in Liaoning Province and the Daqing Petroleum Company in Heilongjiang Province, as well as violent police intervention in a workers’ demonstration at Guangyuan Textile Factory and sentencing of workers rights’ advocates in Sichuan Province. Finally, the complainants allege the detention, arrest and mistreatment in Shanxi Province of an independent labour activist for trying to set up a federation for retired workers.

Case No 2189 (China) - Complaint date: 27-MAR-02

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF)

Allegations

Examination Actions