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		</div><p>A Chinese company that made shoes for Ivanka Trump has denied allegations of excessive overtime and low wages made by three activists who have been arrested or disappeared.</p>
<p>Associated Press reports earlier this week said Hua Haifeng, an investigator for China Labour Watch, a New York-based non-profit organisation, had been arrested on a charge of illegal surveillance, while two colleagues &#8211; Li Zhao and Su Heng &#8211; are missing and rights groups fear they have been detained.</p>
<p>They were investigating Huajian Group factories in the southern Chinese cities of Ganzhou and Dongguan.</p>
<p>Long Shan, a spokeswoman for Huajian Group, said: <i>&#8220;We are shocked. As a renowned global media outlet, you have put out many untrue reports not based on facts and without our consent.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>China Labour Watch executive director Li Qiang said he had not been able to confirm the status of the two missing men.</p>
<p>Ms Long said the company stopped producing Ivanka Trump shoes months ago.</p>
<p>She said Hua Haifeng joined the group&#8217;s factory in Dongguan on May 20, but left after less than a week, and Su Heng began working at the Ganzhou factory on April 28, but also left after a short time.</p>
<p>She said she did not know their current whereabouts.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;By coming to Huajian to work, they are Huajian employees. Huajian staff must comply with China&#8217;s laws and regulations and Huajian&#8217;s rules,&#8221; she said, adding that at least one of the men &#8220;used methods like taking photographs and video to obtain the company&#8217;s trade secrets, which is not in line with the company&#8217;s regulations. Our company has the right to hold him accountable&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>She said reports of managers verbally abusing workers, including insults and a crude reference in Chinese to female genitalia, were based on misunderstanding: <i>&#8220;It is the local dialect being used as management language.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>She said Huajian was looking into allegations of improper use of student interns.</p>
<p>Ms Trump&#8217;s brand declined to comment on the allegations or the arrest and disappearances. Marc Fisher, which produces shoes for Ivanka Trump and other brands, said it was looking into the allegations.</p>
<p>China Labour Watch has been exposing poor working conditions at suppliers to some of the world&#8217;s best-known companies for nearly two decades, but Mr Li said his work has never before attracted this level of scrutiny from China&#8217;s state security apparatus.</p>
<p>The arrest and disappearances come amid a crackdown on perceived threats to the stability of China&#8217;s ruling Communist Party, particularly from sources with foreign ties such as China Labour Watch.</p>
<p>Faced with rising labour unrest and a slowing economy, Beijing has taken a stern approach to activism in southern China&#8217;s manufacturing belt and to human rights advocates generally, sparking a wave of critical reports about disappearances, public confessions, forced repatriation and torture in custody.</p>
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