BANGKOK, Feb 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): A coalition of human rights groups is urging the US government to ban imports of fishing nets from two major Thai suppliers, following a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation into the use of forced prison labour.
December's report found inmates at some Thai prisons were being forced to make fishing nets for private companies - including one that exported to the United States - under threat of punishment including beatings and delayed release.
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