article_snippet.sent: A man who was locked up and tortured in a Chinese cotton mill for 18 years has finally been rescued.
article_snippet.sent: Xie Shisheng, who was just 16 years old when was imprisoned by the mill owner, was found in a small dark room by authorities earlier this week.
article_snippet.sent: Rescued: Xie Shisheng, who was just 16 years old when was imprisoned by the mill owner, was found by police in small dark room by police .
article_snippet.sent: Inside a locked room officials found Xie  making cotton products.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking with a stammer, Xie   said that in 1997, aged 16, Xie   voluntarily went to Qingyuan with the mill owner, but was locked away in cramped living quarters and treated like a slave.
article_snippet.sent: the mill owner would often urinate on Xie  .'
article_snippet.sent: Xie  , originally from Jiangxi in the south east of the country, said that every few years the owners would change the place of work but that a very gaunt Xie was always imprisoned in a dark room without any natural light.
highlights_snippet.sent: Xie Shisheng was just 16 when Xie Shisheng was imprisoned in a Chinese cotton mill .
  