Migrants say firms force workers out of Singapore

Monday, February 17, 2014

SINGAPORE -- Bapari Jakir's employers wanted to see him off the job, but the welder was heavily in debt and didn't want to go back to Bangladesh. So, he says, they encouraged him to leave -- by hiring a company whose thugs held him captive in a room, holding a knife to his throat.

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