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Hong Kong and Abuse of Maids

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Jan 21, 2014
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The disfigured face of a young girl, her body emaciated and tortured, feet swollen, eyes blackened, stared out the front page of the South China Morning Post on Jan. 17 in a harrowing flashback to WWII concentration camp victims.

The staid English language paper is not given to exploiting photos of human misery. Erwiana Sulistyaningsih’s case was just to…

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