BBC/ An Amazon ranching firm called Lima Araujo Agropecuaria will have to pay 5m Reais ($2.8 million usd) after a tribunal upheld a lower court decision over its extensive use of debt slavery. Some 180 employees were freed from its two ranches in the state of Para in 1998 including several adolescents. A judge said it should serve as an example not only for the company in question but to all guilty of exploiting workers. Its premises had been raided on five occasions between 1998 and 2002. The judge said the company's behavior was "absolutely reprehensible, a direct attack on and affront to people's dignity".
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