>A 19-year-old boy in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China, was sold to the Triumph Telecom Fraud Park in Myanmar for RMB 100,000 ($14,000) by his 17-year-old cohabiting girlfriend in February this year.
>In February this year, he went to Bangkok, Thailand with his girlfriend, without telling his family.
>Unexpectedly, after arriving at the Thai-Myanmar border, he was escorted away by the gunman, and his passport and mobile phone were confiscated.
>After arriving there, he was shaved his hair and locked in a dark room. He was forced to engage in telecommunications fraud every day. If his performance did not meet the standard, he was beaten.
>He was forced to work 16 to 20 hours a day. Because he was a "commodity" that was resold by girlfriend for 100,000 yuan, the leader forced him to "create performance" on this basis.
>If he didn’t complete the task, he was locked up in a small dark room and beaten with iron rods. In a long-term high-pressure environment, his weight plummeted by tens of kilograms, his skin became dark, and his ears were almost deaf due to long-term beatings.
>In June this year, his family, with the assistance of the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, paid about RMB 350,000 ($49,000) after many negotiations, before taking him home safely.
>As for his girlfriend, who "sold her boyfriend", she stayed in Thailand for 10 days, then returned to China, and was immediately controlled by the police.
>She is now transferred to the prosecution on suspicion of fraud. The trial, which was originally scheduled to be postponed in July, will be reopened in the near future. The victim’s sister scolded: "She is only 17 years old. Who would have thought that she could do such a thing? The whole family hopes that the court will severely punish her