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dw, made for mind the dear anonymous. i am a french journalist and filmmaker letting me tell you how we discovered your story . it's thanks to 2 women, 2 friends. without them, your voice might never have reached us. it was 2015 in paris. one of them had planned on taking a pregnancy test. the will never forget that day that's only take the one that's

cheapest to the case. what is that? so with the needs, right? so with the, the 2 of them entrusted me with your letter, your cry for help. you wrote it in prison and the chinese city of tension anonymously to protect yourself. your testimony offers a rare insight into chinese prisons and shows us that forced labor on a grand scale does not affect the week or is alone risk in your life. your right difference. are you aware of that while you leave your quiet lives?

chinese prisoners injunction work 12 to 15 hours a day. the here we go hungry. we get only 5 to 6 hours sleep a day. people with different political opinions, complaint and charged us criminals and magazine with prisoners. the police collude with sell boxes in the minds of the offices, the using, able to control legal and violence to control violence of an alias. i wanted to sign this letter, but then my life would be in danger or challenge. it would be good if i could die quickly, do it. okay. that whole time they have someone called you in a base. and roy, so you should never be published in china because they won't have to wait to find out which person wrote this the

the, the, you finish with the words, your friends. thank you for your compassion and sympathy. please help me. thank you very much. signed from the prison and changing china. are you still alive? request we have alerted. i have traveled thousands of kilometers with your letter and met with former prisoners to understand your story. and your connection to us the, this report is a response to your words, which must not go unheard. the,

the 1st witness i met was imprisoned in 2014 like all prisoners in china. he suffered from in humane prison conditions and had to do forced labor well, unbelievable. when a convict 1st arrives in a prison or the police tell you clearly that strictly speaking you are no longer a human ad. so it's, it's, it's hard breaking. it's heartbreaking to, to, to, to, to read, to read this letter because having had that experience,

i can, i can see it in my own eyes. i can see those, those, those moments of, of despair. the this footage shows mario's violet was returned to romania after 8 years in prison in china. his country campaign tirelessly for his release. mario's was convicted of fraudulent business practices in 2014. even though he's an english teacher. he has always denied the accusations the that was there. exactly. here's breaking down in phase 2022. so i came

up with this idea that one's old one. so going back, i'll go in and coverage all walk one kilometer for each day. i spent there this is main point of my pilgrimage. people find out about what china really is, what they're doing to their own people, what they're doing to the foreigners, how they behave in prison. with with prisoners the forced labor, the tortures the the, the killings are being perpetrated. there every single day of the day i met peter humphrey who had put me in contact with mario's in the london suburb. both men had been sent to the same prison in shanghai

. peter had been working in china on behalf of western companies and was supposed to carefully check the reliability of their partners on site. this is known as due diligence. during his investigations, peter became too curious about a member of the chinese communist party. the reaction was not long in coming. peter and his wife were arrested the trial and they're forced to confession with broadcast on television. the couple of were sentenced to 2 years in prison and released in 2015. like you dear anonymous peter has experienced prison firsthand and i was taken, so it depends on the sensor that's run into a cell in the middle of the night. and like a 3 i'm in the morning, was 12 prisoners sleeping on the floor of the so i'm bright lights and it was, it was a shock. it was

a tremendous shock control now. and so this very day. now i often have a flash back of that particular moment when i arrived in the south because it was absolute horror, the testing process as it contains some documentation. and then here we have a, i don't think this is supposed to be here. so this is a handwritten, the lesser is applying to the world from a prisoner in jungle, attends in j. that's china, tinge in prison visits. it's genuine, and i can see his genuine and i know that intends in there are about 10 or 12 cousins who is the other prisons

intends and have more complicated names named off a district swear those prisons are low cases. so i'm pretty certain that this is the 10s in municipal prison that he's referring to. thanks to peter. i have my 1st clue as to where and change in your prison is located. the engine is in northeastern china, around 130 kilometers from beijing. the city has more than $10000000.00 inhabitants and is known for its pharmaceutical industry and its huge port which facilitates global trade. the

11 prisons are set to be located here. it's unclear exactly how many presents there are across the country. many are kept secret, the we drove to change in the city. prison was once a well known building in the city center, the, the only a watch tower and the outer walls remain. the prison was demolished and the hospital was built in its place. the a memorial tact indicates that the prison was moved to another location. the new address is not listed in any registered or finding the or not it was proving more difficult than we thought the

yeah, i remember that i remember that for sure. what you see here, this square are the balance of the prison. these are the administrative offices in front of the secured area. is this and more than half this entire area here are factories these, this tiny little area here are the housing units. from monday to saturday, there were a truck after truck coming in, going into the factory area here, and truck after truck of going out. right, so it was sort of like

a highway. we were joking with each other because being housed here, we can see old days, trucks coming in and all these trucks going out all the time. there were lines i was extremely disappointed to see for a, here's that most of the work that we would get there, or western companies. you know what mario's is talking about in your letter. you tell us that the police work hand in hand with the prison system. you write about the labor accounts, the allow guy, the to remains, reform through work and re education. the camps were set up at the beginning of the people's republic and had 2 goals. brain washing and forced labor, introduced under mount say don't allow guy were intended to silence anyone who was a thorn in the side of the region. millions of men and women lost their lives as

slaves, laborers and mines, tories and farms. 70 years later, you dear anonymous or proof that these caps still exist. and this, even though the level guy were officially abolished in 2013 the chin she martin the out was a member of the level guy research foundation. the 1st us based engineer to find the level guy system,

the as an employee of the law guy research foundation. she collected the statements of former prisoners like you, dear anonymous and published on. so she knows your story well. in the 10 years where i work there, we published over so 2 books. we collected lots of materials about the prison system in the eyes of the ponies prison. this new work tools and money making machines, when our prisoners make mistakes apart from beatings and cursing officers

punish the prisoners with electric batons to give out electric shocks. and they even stoned them with electric batons when they don't work hard enough. of the i think is really very realistic in the present or it's just that it is not allowed to use torture. but this just on the paper. it's in the, in the reality of the prison office to use all kinds of torture. and he mentioned the electric baton. i know that this one book here that it is said that they used to electro electric baton to head to and

sometimes if they are really angry with one prison prisoner, they put the electric bad to in your mouth. so you lose all your teeth. the d, as he calls himself, makes no secret of his criminal past. in 2019, he was arrested in shanghai for credit card fraud and sentence to 2 years in prison . he was in the same prison as mario's and peter, where he refused to do any forced labor dma paid dearly for this. they have like

special kind of par channels. when you're tied to they have special table. we special bells most like you will see in movie for, for crazy people most stronger. so your lay on your own, you all to on the stable special tables. and they tie to your thought or she or here, here is your hand, your legs, everything. and you type labels without any movement and dial a like these 3 days. i refused to take full because impossible to take for they, but they see to the future. and that if you're still in the, i say, i'd say why your, if your students, i said because i cannot use toilet this, why it a few street because i know wants to be cumulative. now for you, can you imagine if for the truth my life do so what can do is trying this. i am

talking about the this european business man has not forgotten his experiences either. by now he has built a new life for himself in bangkok, back in 2011. he was convicted of commercial fraud and spent 8 years in chinese presents the like you dear anonymous, he won't reveal his name. he may be free, but he's still afraid it brings back memories. so all of that is true that people with different political opinions come lazy, challenge this criminals that could indicate that he is against the system. that

most people, the wealthy people, most people in china are against the system because of the font size, the you were subjected to forced labor for 8 years. he describes the production process in prison through the eyes of a business man. you would never actually building something from the salt to the fish. i mean each job kind of lost a minimum of one month and then once it was finished, i to continue with that opening something here. um, i think the longest was the tax, the close tax for companies i see. and i there's a lot of screening that i need to do before with companies. so you have the phone company and they belong to have an agent, sorry to have the middleware and calling the thing that we are using between the foreign company,

the screening company and the prison. so it is very complicated. if you've got taken companies that are giving us, sorry, or willing to offer you $1.00 per, per unit and then all of a sudden you've got another one that's a little pool that 50 you don't get to investigate. the the serenity test is one of the cheapest pregnancy tests on the market, sold by almost 8000 pharmacies and friends and in 30 countries worldwide. the company name on the packaging is b. c t. system company limited. the test can be found on the official corporate, the website the company distributes all types of tests worldwide, including cobra tests. b, c, cheese official address exemptions in the packaging in which you have had in your

letter only says judge and the 2 cities are over. 1800 kilometers. a part finding you is like looking for a needle in a stock the the b c t website lists former a house administer, which in john as the company patron he was the official who entered is china's one child policy in the 19 eighties and ensured that millions of women were sterilized or forced out abortions. she is the only politician named on the website, despite being dead over 10 years. the,

i don't think it's a surprising our former minister will be somebody who is running a prison enterprise, present laboring enterprise. because any business in china, it's a, it's only assessed by the grace of the political power. so obviously it's minister. we have close association with political power. so money really, you know, it's a, it's means nothing in china. political power trumps everything else. my name is desmond shaw. i am complicate a live warranty. shanghai grew up in hong kong, educated united states, and that's been 20 years. imagine doing a investment at real estate development. we are very closely associated with the premier when job i was family, we are the business partner. essentially she's

in ping is less friendly towards the private sector than his predecessors. he sees it as potential opposition under the pretext of fighting corruption. officials are stepping up in prison and doing away with chinese entrepreneurs. even westerners are no longer spared. she jan paying has role that policies introduced by dang job paying in the 1980s. shopping. oh, same as you say, you know, getting well face corey's. right. so for a long time and even today for a lot of people in china, it's like any way to get wealthy is glorious and so i, i use my association, i close and as the political power for personal profiteering. and then in this

case, the peeps on people has a close association with the present system of china and then they use it as part of their personal profit dealing the the law guy survivors can be found all over the world. jenco khan fled to the us in 1993 and was the 1st to expose the level guys work for foreign companies. as the leader of the democracy movement in shanghai, jenco khan was sent to prison and wrote a letter from their crony for help. like you, dear anonymous, he denounced, forced labor hunger and torture. thanks to an end you,

his message reach the united states. the was part of myself to be of the 1st letter to expose the crime. we are forced to 2 weeks artificial flowers protest in the artificial flowers the going to china on. so this is the place i was spending there more than one half years. we haven't told the truth since they have time we move. so is kyrie and more students to they both kind of go for the boat, any kind of move that way on the evening. we do artificial flowers,

entries to 6 hours. know that for the sound version here before, i can say this where she is, maybe of her potty said, here's the change of assessing. but it does look like same. i almost lost my life. i still have an assumption. the last laugh is a memory process like this though and for them. and as i said, well, someone beats with this, i didn't lose my life as our web. so i would, however, i found the even the products for export and was angry, not understanding. it was angry. i was determined a tool expose it to to prepare the price to accommodate. why do we have to we don't want the enjoy for the products the,

as i, as i say, sufficient. she helped explain to me what the lifeline and the conditions are very similar to what we're hearing today. and this is such a strong how long this was about the with the sort of general com. amelia hang published a book about forced labor in china in 2019. she went under cover in china housing as a business woman and establishing contact with several prison companies to the site and pretended to working with the manufacturers and, and wanted to source on this facilities. i talked to the guards and say, hey, i like to buy products for me or with a major global supplier. and they said this great place to a lot of products here. please, a welcome to take

a look. while there's no hard numbers because the chinese government doesn't release reliable statistics of the lamp, it's in millions of people who landed this lamp or cans are largely political decisions. pro democracy activists for just as it is and has human rights lawyers the, the the decided to follow the truck. so look, this labor counts to say much supplier they worked with the, what struck me was diversity of the products that they made. the face can expect a very wide range of products from artificial flowers that we may or may not need

to buy to the from pharmaceutical products that were made in our lives. i mean, when i follow these trucks, i found that they were working with they were producing products that were being sold for major global brands like apple, amazon. and i think i can show these direct connections then these, these brands have more resources than a single journalist. eyes and they can tell the it's striking to me about this letter is that this

a pregnancy test is supposed to symbolize the beginning of life, you know, new life. and here it was manufactured by someone who is in between life and death, just barely holding on, and they're begging for a new life as well. a chance to live. yeah, that's terrible. uh, i can make 3 basically judgment number when this person is aware agitated as an a he went in to accommodate you. number one, number 2, this is a police prisoner because the he said that even has a defendant's, a penny facing and it can be treated as a claimant or claim. 3rd, uh i can see maybe 2 3rd and possibly if he said man, but it was sorted possibly. so if we met, could it be a woman? this 100, right? i'm wearing types to buy this. and they quoted by all my memory. came back to me. you know,

so he has to go well as he to encompass the patients that kind of you mentioned over the 30 years chain is people severe southeast texas history molars. dear anonymous, i was able to send you a letter to a political prisoner who was recently released from the prison intention, displayed man, still lives in china. and on reading your letter, he gave us further insight into the present conditions there the your letter gives me the impression that the

prisoner works. and one of the last links in the chain of the pharmaceutical industry like packaging. there are many such factories in junction, in the prison where i was, we had to pack disposable gloves for export to europe. this seemingly easy work is extremely laborious. as soon as a prisoner enters, the prison becomes a kind of robots. in fact, there are 2 types of robots, soldiers, and prisoners. each prisoner is just a small link and a complex production chain. they're expected to behave like machines working at high speed. every day from morning to night. almost nonstop, the masks gloves, tests packaged up in prison. i followed the trail of these products from junglin

and came across the website of a chinese wholesaler showing the connection between b c. t. system mentions in and junction. it's a company called re care. one of the products is changing based company manufacturers is the serenity test. according to its own documentation, it uses b, c. t's passes. $24.00 us cents per piece. that's the price for which prisoners work themselves to the left to meet you here. here is i come from and it's many promotional videos, re care promises unbeatable prices and delivery times on the company's website. pictures of the production hall and sales department are shown in an invoice. the

re cares, address is in charge and we wanted to verify that the we went to building number 13 dash 3. there's no sign and no logo. it's a residential area. there could be office is behind a store, but there's nothing to suggest that there's no production facility here. another indication that the test was packaged in prison. it's another clue. this product came from the allow guy, the,

the dear anonymous. your story is also the story of trade relations between our countries. one full of contradictions. on the one hand, there's the e. u parliament, offering strong support for the week or on the other. there's the e u commission. negotiating an investment agreement with china, which has not yet been ratified. it's a double gain according to high and high. pretty cool. the chair of the delegation formulation is with the people's republic of china. a former australian prime minister was asked the what has been motivating australia's trying on policy, and he's at 2 words, greed and fear. and um,

i don't think that in the european case, fear has played such a prominent role for the breed. obviously pass the, the letter reminds us that it is not sufficient just to talk about the fate of the tibetans or the week course or the way or the mom was we have to address a system that is, is built on the basis of this risk bank for the most fundamental human rights, the since 2021,

the u. s. has been trying to put trade with china on an ethical footing. the 2 countries are engaged in invoking training or a law passed by congress age to prevent goods produced with forced labor and change on the province at the we orders from reaching north america the we want those people the we garzon, others repressed in chinese. you know that we do care about them, these like force labor and we said they shang, a clear message. this genocide must and now in china joined the vo 20 years ago. this week the world gave aging a blank check, and 2 days legislation will help right. this wrong news

roughly a looks man was one of the 1st to stand up for the rights of the week was he's working on e. you draft legislation based on existing american laws for all products made with forced labor and full smoking. as soon as we need a simple trade instrument to band products from the european market that originate from slavery or forced labor, lots of sampling services. as soon as its product is associated with forced labor, it's banned from the european martyrs hill. it's not even a lot. it's a trade instrumentals for class. so that's what we want to introduce our clinic

down as soon as someone finds a letter like this, and they should alerted the authorities who should pass the message onto the customs office in the country. this way, all shipments containing these tests can be confiscated by customs boxes. why do we want such an instrument? because we want to make sure we don't support criminal activity by buying such products. the slavery will only exist if it's financially profitable is happy. okay? if we support the system to our consumption, we're partly responsible for the existence of forest labor. that's all i can pay off the do not miss. i have been searching for your present for months. by comparing conversations with relatives on chinese social networks and satellite images. i finally find the coordinates of the prison. the

when i see is shocking. a huge prison complex comprising at least 3 prisons. officially, there are 5 state own companies attached to it. the complex is partially surrounded by one. it's a fortress from which there was no escape. the you have an excellence here with a couple of entrance buildings and those buildings would typically be the administration buildings of the prison. so these buildings and these buildings looked to me like cell blocks, every floor of every cell block would have less cool at the factory room,

where they perform this manufacturing labor that was the same and my present shanghai, it was the same in my wife's prism to shanghai i'm, it is the same in most prisons where the production label is working on rob a low level of products such as packaging or very small scale manual assembly of things. a prison like this could be holding a couple of 1000 prisoners. this is the 1st time that i've seen what seem to be so many present campuses, cost clusters together in $1.00 neighborhood. it is very clear to me that the china's prison system has grown exponentially, especially in the last 10 years. but even before that, one of the 1st things that sees in things, so when he came to power, he spoke to his, his subordinate, some sort of build more prisons. okay. and that's what he's been doing. security as

much higher. the scale is bigger and the level of commercial economic activity bringing profits to the prisons has expanded exponentially. the we now know where you were being held and want to see the huge prism complex for ourselves. we drive to the south of lee you in to, in the district. she change, we know we run a great risk of being arrested, but we drive on towards the prison, your prison, the security measures. the main entrance are strict, which is the,

the prison walls stretch for several kilometers. it looks even more expensive than on the satellite image. the, we have never been as close to you as we are now. if you are still in prison, if you are still alive and on the i'm just reacting to this upcoming. i'm a business fraud investigator who was to be to my clients, asked me to name things like checking on a potential business partner and fox identifying the people behind it to their background and their history. what do they seem to ensure that the risk of fraud is minimized to it?

so they've been pushing into the for the i was happy to help because i'm interested in the welfare of chinese workers, chinese prisoners, and the wider population. it's being treated terribly by every gene that these people do not deserve to marry the daring on this. hopefully one day you will learn that this man's help was crucial. after 20 years of working in china, he emigrated to ireland because he no longer felt safe. he agreed to meet with me in dublin. your story touched him and he is looking for the chinese subcontractor, who is exploiting you. he's working in secret, supported by contacts in china. the showed us to very detailed reports with

evidence of the links between the require company and forced labor and your present point. gomez, is there a good grounds for suspecting fraud? was none of the address is associated with re care in the commercial register and other official sources are industrial cycle and they're just offices. this is the names of prison. employees are kept secret in china. but the investigator found out that a manager of the city prison and the commercial manager, a free care are one and the same person on the senate available in an old challenge in business directory. the contact person for re care is the same name as a female, official of the city prison. some some book or name position, and cell phone number or on a list of prison. officials compile by an independent source who i need to function . now the present in gene was a partial sunday called the

our final link takes us from one porch to another, from judge and 2 more se home to a company called as a t. the company has been having the serenity, pregnancy test manufactured in china for over 15 years to your letter during onto this passed through this warehouse at some point. it has now made its way back here to give you the amount shown above budgets, which i speak no chinese, but we have this letter. here's where it says, s o s on the back don't even though you have also sent me

a translation of this document, this a document. i would like to point out that this is a medical product. it must not be produced in a prison getting by till february date that is strictly forbid, mostly sick to my dad must come from a medical device factory. but certain manual tasks can be and are carried out in prison. c, r u z. those in please don't ask you so if they think i'm all like when i talk to somebody, i should never know the final packaging test. if i put you on the test is produced in the factory. i mean, you don't. however, packaging can take place outside the factory, but that is possible. i, you, i don't, i cannot carry out an investigation in this case. the whole process is too complex, don't get, but it is possible with the packaging. yes, the safety of preventing vietnam, but actually not, we don't want just to the fact that products are packaged in the prison doesn't shots mean so, but that prisoners work 15 hours a day without anything to eat without pay. and that shocks make sense for me to go

to school, but what can we do about this? me my name, i will carry out a more thorough investigation, but we can only produce these products in agencies which otherwise the price consumers pay would be $3.00 or 4 times higher if i buy that goal. in other words, the price justifies everything. one day companies will have to react, review their supply chains abroad, and commit to respecting human rights. this is what the supply chain act is all about. members of the european parliament have to days to debate and vote on the legislative text. the letter, dear anonymous, could play a role in how things turn out the

because i'm school, we start with the committee on foreign affairs and a speech by if i fail, looks month, dukes month, chef could i do see the web deer colleagues that do go through this letter was found in the box of this pregnancy test left that i left and dumped a cry for help from a chinese prisoner who is scores to manufacturer products that are then sold in paris at by. this is what a world without has leads to. don't again, with those are the most power bear the least responsibility. that'd be the fed please. that due diligence legislation is a major revolution. each don't throw, don't a weakening or rejecting. it is contrary to our principles and interest. we'll talk to you means we'll see. i lose out there, i shut down. everyone will have to answer for they're both informed of this whole, but the

amendment 8 was in favor. there's a few who is against the can. you can who upstate adopted on angles and 20 years after china joined the w. t. o. europe and the us are finally trying to put an end to something that may have cost you during honest your life or at least randi a part of it. the vote is closed, the, the acceptance the, this loan is the 1st historic step. we can only hope europe will take the next one . a trade down on all products made by forced labor. not just function john.

the 30 use live between your call for help. during onto this amount of 1030 years in which a handful of women men like you risk their lives to denounce the chinese prison system. i hope one day you will find out that your courageous efforts were not in vain. the,

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