AP wins Pulitzer for stories on enslaved fishermen in Asia

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

NEW YORK -- The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables -- an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers.

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