On 26 January, staff in an office in Mumbai received an urgent e-mail from a crew member aboard a tanker off the coast of Singapore. The email, purportedly written on behalf of five colleagues aboard the tanker sailing under the name Beeta, contained a litany of complaints: crew members, it was alleged, had not been paid and were being treated "like animals"; and provisions were running low. The staff in Mumbai worked for the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), the world's leading

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