‘The SOS in my Halloween decorations’

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Inside a notorious Chinese labour camp, a dissident smuggled an SOS letter into the Halloween decorations he was forced to manufacture. Years later, a woman in the US opened a box of fake tombstones and found his note. It seemed impossible at that moment that they would ever meet.

Letter from Masanjia labour camp found inside Halloween decorations

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Julie Keith
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Sun Yi in the darkness
Illustration of Sun Yi polishing a polystyrene tombstone
Falun Gong practitioners outside Hong Kong government offices in 1999
Image captionFalun Gong practitioners outside Hong Kong government offices in 1999
Illustration of Sun Yi writing a letter in bed
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Sun Yi outside Masanjia after his release
Image captionSun Yi outside Masanjia after his release
Sun Yi with the letter
Julie and Sun Yi meeting

Published October 29, 2018

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