{"id":4561,"date":"2022-01-30T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/30\/alexa-whistleblower-demands-amazon-apology-after-being-jailed-and-tortured\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T07:36:07","slug":"alexa-whistleblower-demands-amazon-apology-after-being-jailed-and-tortured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/30\/alexa-whistleblower-demands-amazon-apology-after-being-jailed-and-tortured\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tang Mingfang is willing to risk reprisals to clear his name over Foxconn revelations \u2013 and to get backing from Jeff Bezos<\/p>\n<p>A whistleblower who exposed illegal working conditions in a factory making Amazon\u2019s Alexa devices says he was tortured before being jailed by Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Tang Mingfang, 43, was jailed after he revealed how the Foxconn factory in the southern Chinese city of Hengyang used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/aug\/08\/schoolchildren-in-china-work-overnight-to-produce-amazon-alexa-devices\" title=\"\">schoolchildren working illegally long hours<\/a> to manufacture Amazon\u2019s popular Echo, Echo Dot and Kindle devices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/30\/alexa-factory-whistleblower-i-was-tortured-and-jailed-now-amazon-should-apologise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e99fe03c3c76d52c73906225c45071699834a525\/0_108_1440_864\/master\/1440.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4294cc83210c453d9b471d8df1725eed\" title=\"Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured\" \/>Tang Mingfang is willing to risk reprisals to clear his name over Foxconn revelations \u2013 and to get backing from Jeff Bezos<br \/>\nA whistleblower who exposed illegal working conditions in a factory making Amazon\u2019s Alexa devices says he was tortured before being jailed by Chinese authorities.<br \/>\nTang Mingfang, 43, was jailed after he revealed how the Foxconn factory in the southern Chinese city of Hengyang used schoolchildren working illegally long hours to manufacture Amazon\u2019s popular Echo, Echo Dot and Kindle devices. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tang Mingfang is willing to risk reprisals to clear his name over Foxconn revelations \u2013 and to get backing from Jeff Bezos A whistleblower who exposed illegal working conditions in a factory making Amazon\u2019s Alexa devices says he was tortured before being jailed by Chinese authorities. Tang Mingfang, 43, was jailed after he revealed how &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/30\/alexa-whistleblower-demands-amazon-apology-after-being-jailed-and-tortured\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}