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Malaysia needs to be more diligent in stopping all forms of worker exploitation and trafficking of human persons, says Charles Hector.

Many of us wrongly believe that trafficking in persons is only about sex workers but this is not true as it also includes the exploitation of workers.

Trafficking in persons is defined internationally as constituting three elements:

Likewise in Malaysia, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007 defines trafficking in persons or traffics in persons to mean the recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring, providing or receiving of a person for the purpose of exploitation; and exploitation means all forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, any illegal activity or the removal of human organs;

We will be looking at specifically at worker exploitation in Malaysia, including forced labour or services. Forced or compulsory labour is defined as all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily. Forced labour refers to situations in which persons are coerced to work through the use of violence or intimidation, or by more subtle means such as accumulated debt, retention of identity papers or threats of denunciation to immigration authorities.

The local worker a victim of trafficking?

The local worker in Malaysia can come under the threat of dismissal or a delay in promotion or wage increase. They are discouraged from claiming their legal rights or standing up for rights.

Even trade union leaders are not saved from such intimidation and some find they are overlooked for promotion and wage increase exercises when their fellow workers who are not union leaders or active union members get promoted or are awarded wage increases.

Unionists are also targeted for disciplinary action and dismissal for the carrying out of legitimate activities such as the issuance of media statements, picketing, involvement in campaigns for the promotion and protection of worker rights and such matters which reasonably should be considered as legitimate union activities.

If union members are so intimidated and under the menace of such penalties, what more the ordinary worker who is not unionised? The lodging of a complaint to the relevant authorities about non-payment of wages, overtime and a violation of other rights may result in not just intimidation but even disciplinary action and termination.

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By Editorial Board April 13

WERE GUESSING its not a coincidence that the latest, disturbing report about Jason Rezaian, The Posts unjustly imprisoned correspondent in Iran, comes just after the government of Hassan Rouhani accepted a preliminary accord on the countrys nuclear program. On Sunday, the Fars news agency, which is believed to be close to Irans Revolutionary Guard Corps, issued a dispatch saying that Mr.Rezaian faced charges of espionage and acting against national security. It went on to sketch a case against the reporter that would be laughable were it not being used to justify an outrageous human rights abuse.

Not for the first time, Mr.Rezaian looks like a pawn in Irans domestic power struggle over the nuclear deal. That makes it all the more urgent that Mr.Rouhani demonstrate his ability to control his opposition by arranging Mr.Rezaians immediate release.

Mr.Rezaian, who was born and raised in California, had been jailed for 265 days as of Monday, far longer than any Western journalist previously detained in Iran. In violation of Iranian law, he still has not been brought to trial, and prosecutors have never officially reported the charges against him. He was denied the lawyer chosen by his family, and his court-approved attorney has not yet met with him.

Mr.Rezaians family and experts on Iran have been saying for some time that the delay and lack of transparency in the legal process likely reflect the fact that prosecutors have no plausible case against him and have been stalling while attempting to concoct one. The Fars report lends credence to that view. It claims that the 39-year-old journalist sold economic and industrial information to unidentified Americans. It then devolves into a long account of Mr.Rezaians relationships with exiled Iranian journalists and human rights activists. It cites as somehow significant the fact that two of them attended the 2011 funeral of Mr.Rezaians father as if that could have had anything to do with espionage.

One of those journalists, Omid Memarian, told The Posts Carol Morello that members of the judiciary are attempting to undermine Mr.Rouhani by impugning his nephew, who is in charge of his media operation. A critic of Mr.Rouhani claimed in February that Mr.Rezaian had penetrated the presidents office. This, too, makes little sense.

Whats clear is that Mr.Rezaian continues to be held in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison long after Mr.Rouhanis foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, described him as a good reporter and expressed the hope that he will be cleared in a court of law . Again the question arises: If Mr.Rouhani and his foreign minister cannot stop the persecution of an American journalist they know to be innocent, can they be counted on to deliver on the commitments they made in the nuclear talks?

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Editorial: Irans absurd persecution of Post reporter Jason Rezaian