Desperate workers have allegedly left notes inside holiday cards, jacket pockets, and purses for years, begging for Western shoppers to send help
The note was from a man identified as Tohnain Emmanuel Njong, who claimed he was forced to work 13-hour days at a Chinese prison factory. A small photo of a man in an orange jacket was also enclosed in the bag.
A human-rights agency named Laogai Research Foundation verified the letter and passed it on to the US Department of Homeland Security, but it's not clear if the agency investigated the complaint, DNAinfo reported in 2014.
Separately, in 2015, a man in Newcastle in northern England found a note stuffed inside his Primark socks. The note was from a person named Ding Tingkun, who claimed that he was held at a detention center in Lingbi County, eastern China. "used to gain publicity for the plight of this individual," and that several other messages had appeared around the same time.
"The Primark name is being used to gain publicity for the plight of this individual," a representative said at the time."We have found no link at all between this individual and any of our suppliers' factories in China."
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