China
Monday, 12 June 2017
China’s government rejected a request made by the U.S. State Department to release three labor activists detained last week while investigating a factory that produced footwear for the fashion brand of Ivanka Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump. Chinese officials say they instead want to enforce a “cone of silence” around the detainees and admit that they have also questioned the wife of one of the detainees. (Associated Press)