A mentally ill worker rests at a construction site at the Jiaersi Green Construction Material Chemical Factory in Toksun county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. An owner of a shelter for the mentally ill was detained late Monday evening in southwestern China's Sichuan province for allegedly selling mentally disabled people to a factory. A rescue team of 12 members from Quxian was heading for Xinjiang to free the workers involved in the slavery scandal.[Xinjiang Metropolis News] |