CNN's Video: Back from the dead -- Thai fishermen living as slaves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRZkppBCT-U

Published on May 13, 2015

CNN's Freedom Project spoke to Thai men who had been promised decent wages on fishing boats only to find themselves among thousands of migrant workers, working as virtual slaves.

One man told CNN he spent six years on board one boat, and was made to work 20-hour days in life-threatening conditions.

His horrific journey only came to an end last month, thousands of miles from Thailand, when the boat he was on was impounded by Indonesian authorities for suspected illegal fishing.