Iqbal Masih, Child Hero

Iqbal Masih’s life was brave, inspiring... and taken too soon. At the age of four Iqbal was sold into bonded labor for the equivalent of just $12, and he was forced to work 12 hours every day in Pakistan’s rug industry. When he escaped at age 10, Iqbal made it his mission to save other “carpet kids“ like him who were trapped slaving in the handmade rug industry. But on April 16, Easter Sunday 1995, Iqbal was brutally murdered. His voice silenced by the carpet mafia he exposed. Iqbal is gone, but his voice can live on.