TAIPEI (AFP): Taiwanese prosecutors on Wednesday (April 20) charged nine people for exploiting and abusing foreign crew on a longline fishing boat, a scourge that activists have long warned was going under-reported and unpunished.
Taipei, April 21 (CNA) The minimum monthly wage of migrant fishermen working on Taiwan's distant-water fishing (DWF) fleets will be increased by US$100 (NT$2,919) with effect from July, the government said Thursday.
Nine Taiwanese have been indicted on charges related to the forced labor and abuse of migrant workers on a distant-water fishing vessel, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office said on Wednesday.
The foreign crew of the Vanuata-flagged Da Wang (大旺), owned and operated by Kaohsiung-based Yong Feng Fishery (永豐國際生物科技公司), were subject to beatings, insults, confinement, and threats to withhold or deduct wages while working in the Pacific Ocean in 2019 and 2020, prosecutors said.
The vessel’s captain surnamed Lin (林), first mate surnamed Liang (梁) and seven others were indicted for their roles in the abuse of more than 20 Indonesian and Philippine
Taipei, April 20 (CNA) Nine Taiwanese have been indicted on charges relating to the forced labor and physical abuse of foreign crew members on an offshore fishing vessel, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office said on Wednesday.