Also troubling: More than a dozen workers have attempted--and succeeded at--.

There is another side to the story, though.

ABC's Nightline aired a report in February in which TV correspondent Bill Weir took cameras inside Foxconn and showed that young workers there more than anything else.

In the meantime, the Fair Labor Association has been conducting of Apple's final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu at Apple's request. The FLA has not yet released its findings.

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