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After my work pass was cancelled, I felt like another person. I was no longer a respectable bus driver but a prisoner. Maybe the way the police treated us as we moved from room to room made me feel that way.
This was the testimony of He Zhi Yi, one of the 20 Chinese bus workers in Singapore who were deported to China after participating in an ‘illegal strike’
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