On February 22, the day after
Stuff’s original report, Yu says he was summoned to a meeting with the company’s owner, Richard Kennaway, with Zhou translating into Mandarin.
He alleges he was told: “This person is harmful to our factory, telling outsiders about things happening in the factory... now he’s talked to journalists about things happening in the factory, now it’s been exposed, the factory’s reputation is gone, and it’s hard to make business deals with others”.
Another worker pleaded on his behalf and he won a temporary reprieve, but was then dismissed earlier this month.