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Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani boy who was sold into bonded labor at the age of four. For six years, he was forced to weave carpets for 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for pennies. At age 10, he escaped and helped free 3,000 other children from slavery. After being freed, Iqbal became an activist against bonded child labor. He traveled the world to speak out against child labor. On April 16, 1995, when he was 12 years old, Iqbal was shot and killed.