Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Forced labor: SOS message from a labor camp found in Kmart product
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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