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Chilling Letter From Chinese Factory Worker Found In Saks Fifth Avenue Bag

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The letter written by Tohnain Emmanuel Njong, which he stuffed in a Saks Fifth Avenue bag that he said he made in a Chinese prison. When he was arrested on accusations of fraud Njong said he had a one or two passport photo in his pocket that he transfered to prison uniform. He placed them with some of the letters he wrote.

 

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NEW YORK CITY — Stephanie Wilson was reaching for a receipt inside a paper shopping bag from Saks Fifth Avenue when she found a letter pleading, “HELP HELP HELP.”

 

The message, written in blue ink on white lined paper, appeared to be a desperate cry from a man who said he made the bag while being unfairly held in a Chinese prison factory more than 7,000 miles away.

“We are ill-treated and work like slaves for 13 hours every day producing these bags in bulk in the prison factory,” continued the letter, which was tucked into the bottom of the bag. It ended, “Thanks and sorry to bother you.”

“I read the letter and I just shook,” said Wilson, 28, an Australian who lives in West Harlem. “I could not believe what I was reading.”

The note, which Wilson found after buying a pair of Hunter rain boots at Saks in September 2012, was signed Tohnain Emmanuel Njong and was accompanied by a small passport-photo sized color picture of a man in an orange jacket, she said.

The letter, which also included a Yahoo email address on the back, triggered a hunt for the whereabouts of the mystery man.

Wilson showed the missive to the Laogai Research Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group founded to fight human rights abuses in Chinese prisons. The nonprofit foundation began investigating using its contacts on the ground as well as online, a representative confirmed to DNAinfo New York.

But when Njong’s Yahoo email address bounced back, the nonprofit was unable to locate him.

Harry Wu, the founder of Laogai Research Foundation, spent 19 years in a Chinese prison factory, known as laogai. He said he took steps to verify the letter and believes that Njong took a huge risk in writing and sending it.

“There would be solitary confinement until you confess and maybe later they increase your sentence — or even death,” Wu said.

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    • MikeG

      Why would you publish this mans name and photo – he is prob dead by now. You maniacs!

      • DRAUGR

        It’d be fo da money fool. Is you stupid o sometin. Dam boy, it always bout da money. You don’ts see dat? Where yo be bone at whi– boy? Som Mut– fu—- Pluto or somtin? Ha, ha, ha , ha , ah , ha.

      • Dustdevil

        Wake up, MikeG, blood sells – and this could drive a follow-up.

        The bigger question, MikeG, is when are you going to stop financing this type of enslavement by buying American, instead of anything-for-a-dollar made in China?

        Thought so – you aren’t going to change, anymore than stores are going to stop selling Chinese-slave-labor goods.

        Now, realize that millions of children, near-babies, are working to make your shirts, coffee cups, car parts and so much more, each-and-every-day there. Now, why don’t you stop financing it?

        Oh, yeah, forgot, you can’t afford to – since the elite have already destroyed the economy of America on their road to ONE WORLD ENSLAVEMENT.

    • DRAUGR

      Anything that can get the big scoop and sell more stories is what it’s all about. How else are they going to make enough money to keep filling those plastic bags with goodies like new shoes made at prison camps, or those nice plush slippers, made by 10 and 12 year old girls who are sold into slavery and work 12 to 18 hour days?
      Enjoy Americans, soon it will be you making the bags and the shoes and the cozy cheap slippers.
      A country of dumbasses and being dumbasses for so long has it’s consequences. Everyone of us is about to find out what those consequences are.
      By posting this mans picture he has probably already been executed. Do think that has no repercussions? Immediate repercussions, no. In the long run, yes but only ten times worse.

    • Jaydog

      another BS scam for the weak minded tard! Like he knew the bag will ended up in an English speaking country and he has access to an email to reply? come on now!

      • DRAUGR

        Maybe so, but just how many bags would be filled with similar letters if say, all the slave work camps and prisons around the world in these hell hole countries allowed their inmates or slaves to use the internet? My guess would be uhh, probably all of them. Because something may be staged doesn’t mean that the underlying meaning isn’t a real one or what is being said isn’t the truth. Sometimes those of us who cannot speak out must find others that can.
        So with that said, are you saying that because this particular incident may have been faked that political prisoners and worker slaves do not exist and cry out everyday to be free?
        You need an education on how most of the world works, as well as an occasional stroll from the comfy confines of your pretty little flat.

        • Ben

          Yes but if he is making these bags all day everyday how many Passport Photos has he got stashed away on is person without being found.

          Sorry Draugr, it sounds as though it is you who needs an education :p

      • Geeper

        It’s a Saks Fifth Avenue bag, he knows it’s going to end up in an English speaking country. Other sources say he wrote “some in French that he hid in bags labeled with French words”, and that he wrote a total of five letters. (This happened in 2012; he’s out now and has been interviewed.) So I guess he happened to have between one and four passport photos on him.

    • alldumbsarentblonde

      I have seen this article before. Like months ago.. How can this be “Before Its News”, if its Old News.. ?? :???: :mad: :shock:

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