The miners were left starving and dehydrated after security forces cut off their access to food and water.
Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them.
The statement says that earlier this week, security forces "blocked communities in and around these abandoned mining shifts in Orkney from delivering food parcels, water and necessities to these illegal miners".
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