Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Forced labor: SOS message from a labor camp found in Kmart product
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In 2008, the US State Department estimated up to half of the 200,000 registered detainees in Chinese labor camps were Falun Gong adherents.
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Liveleak | Archives
By Liveleak | Archives 2012
It’s a modern-day version of a message in a bottle. From a Chinese labor camp to the home of a US resident.
On Sunday, the Oregon-based Oregonian newspaper reported a letter resident Julie Keith discovered inside a box of Halloween decorations.
She bought it from Kmart in October.
The box came from China—and according to the letter—it wasn’t from a factory. Instead, the decorations were made here, at the Masanjia Labor Camp in Shenyang, Liaoning province.
The letter claims detainees work 15-hour days and are paid less than $2 USD a month for forced labor. It says thousands are held there, and that many are persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.
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