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China Court Freezes Journalists' Personal Assets Over Apple iPod Story

An iPod manufacturer Foxconn in Shenzhen has filed a defamation case against two journalists at the China Business News following a report on poor working conditions at Apple factories in China . A Chinese court has frozen the personal assets of the journalists on the charge that the story written by the journalists tarnished the company's reputation.

At the beginning of July, Guo Taiming, president of Taiwan's Hon Hai Group, which is the parent company of Foxconn, said in Japan that Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper report about Foxconn's mistreatment of Chinese workers was untrue.

A few weeks ago, Apple dispatched an audit team comprised of members from its human resources, legal, and operations groups to carry out a thorough investigation of the conditions at the Foxconn manufacturing site. Apple says it found Foxconn to be in compliance in the majority of the areas audited. However, it did find violations of Apple's Code of Conduct, as well as other areas for improvement that Apple says it is working with Foxconn to address.


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