Police rescue foreigners from illegal confinement

Seven of the eight victims, from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, were locked inside the manpower agency's office in Kaohsiung City, where the police found other evidence related to the case, such as foreign workers' passports, working visas and savings account passbooks, prosecutors said.

The other victim was being held in a rooftop apartment.

Following the police rescue of the foreign workers, some were deported from Taiwan because their visas had expired, while others were being cared for by the Kaohsiung County government's Labor Affairs Bureau.

Prosecutors said their office, in cooperation with the Kaohsiung County government Police Bureau and the Kaohsiung City Reconnaissance Brigade, also summoned three executives of the manpower agency for questioning, and they were later released on bail.

The three individuals are also suspected of illegally forcing the victims to work overtime and reducing their salary by all possible means, prosecutors said.

Earlier this week, the husband of a female foreign worker, who was the victim held in the rooftop apartment, reported to the Kaohsiung police that he had lost contact with his wife for days.

That triggered the police investigation and led to the rescue of the migrant workers.

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