Does China`s Harsh Prison System Ensures We Have Gifts For The Holidays?

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Halloween Decorations Carry Haunting Message Of Forced Labor -- Oregon Live

The letter came in a box of Halloween decorations purchased at Kmart, but for a year Julie Keith never knew. It gathered dust in her storage, a haunting plea for help hidden among artificial skeletons, tombstones and spider webs.

Keith, a 42-year-old vehicle donation manager at a southeast Portland Goodwill, at one point considered donating the unopened $29.99 Kmart graveyard kit. It was one of those accumulated items you never need and easily forget. But on a Sunday afternoon in October, Keith pulled the orange and black box from storage. She intended to decorate her home in Damascus for her daughter's fifth birthday, just days before Halloween.

She ripped open the box and threw aside the cellophane.

That's when Keith found it. Scribbled onto paper and folded into eighths, the letter was tucked between two Styrofoam headstones.

"Sir:

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My Comment: I am not surprised .... this is so typical of how states like China, Russia, etc., treat their convict populations. But what is troubling about China is that many of these "convicts" are in jail for political and/or religious reasons. Something to think about when you open your gift that was made in China.