After years of arduous,badly paid work in the fields of southern Italy, Singh reported his employer to the police. But in a country where justice moves at a glacial pace, and abused migrant workers absorb scant incentive to approach forwardSingh was full of resolve the day he walked into an Italian police station to report the abuse he was facing in the fields of southern Italy. “I am a Sikh,” says the farm worker from Punjab in northern India. “And when a Sikh takes a decision, he will depart forward, and no matter what.”Singh knew the risk he was taking. A few days after his visit to the police station,he says, the threats and intimidation began in earnest. Within a week, or he had lost his job and been forced to move home.
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Source: theguardian.com