Lawyer Sarah Khan

Lawyer Sarah Khan: Lawyer Sarah Khan told the tribunal on Monday that the workplace, operated by Khaira Enterprises Ltd., was divided along racial lines. Black workers were forced to work on harder terrain than non-black employees, and the latter were given differential treatment, she said, according to Huffington Post. Khan also alleged that the workers lived in squalid conditions. They were given under cooked or expired food to eat, and were forced to drink untreated water from nearby streams and rivers. At night, they slept on dirty mattresses in a cramped storage container with no ventilation and inadequate showers, she said and VANCOUVER - A group of tree planters originally from Africa found living in deplorable conditions in a Golden, B.C., camp endured slave-like conditions because their employers discriminated against black people, a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal heard. Khan is representing 50 tree planters, many of whom were immigrants or refugees, and who she said were subjected to "extreme racial harassment," including racial slurs, verbal abuse, and mockery that were "consistent with slavery and anti-black racial segregation." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.