In July of 2018, a young man named Fadhil left his home in Indonesia to work as a deckhand on a high seas fishing vessel, a Chinese squid jigger called The Wei Yu 18. He was 25 years old, venturing out to sea for the first time. Fadhil boarded the Wei Yu 18 at the Port of Busan, South Korea, where he joined a crew of nine other Indonesians and 20 Chinese.
This is the tragic story of Fadhil, who was trafficked onto a Chinese squidfishing vessel.
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