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An Oregon woman finds an SOS message from a Chinese dissident in a package of Halloween decorations from Kmart, setting off a chain of events that would shut down the entire labor camp system in China and ignite the letter-writer’s dangerous quest to expose a deadly persecution.
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If you are in the US please write to your local senator asking them to co-sponsor Senate Resolution 220, a bipartisan resolution expressing solidarity for Falun Gong practitioners who have lost lives, freedoms, and rights for adhering to their beliefs and practices.
If you are in Canada please write to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help free Canadian Falun Gong practitioner, Sun Qian, who has been illegally detained in China for over a year and is being tortured for her beliefs.
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Settle Stories director, Sita Brand, says [Sunday's screening] will be an opportunity for people to find out how Letter from Masanjia was made which "is in itself a fascinating story. Lee was banned from his native country China due to his previous work exposing human rights abuses, which meant he had to direct the film remotely using Skype." Craven Herald & Pioneer
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A FILM of ‘significant importance’ with a following live streamed question and answer session with the director is due to be screened by Settle…Documentary Letter from Masanjia screens TWICE in the UK this week:
WEDNESDAY evening in Bury St. Edmunds Abbeygate Cinema thanks to BSE Young Programmers
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SUNDAY afternoon in Yorkshire Dales thanks to Settle Stories settlestories.org.uk/letterfrommasanjia
Letter from Masanjia | Abbeygate Cinema
abbeygatecinema.co.uk
Duration: 75 minutes DIRECTOR: Leon Lee Starring: Yi Sun, Fu Ning, Julie Keith In English and Mandarin with English subtitles When a SOS note, smuggled out of a Chinese labour camp, is discovered and goes viral, an astonishing sequence of events unfold. The now freed prisoner, a Chinese engineer who...Letter from Masanjia is featured in today's Yorkshire Times!
"Sun Yi’s letter must have been sent with as much expectation as a message cast out to sea in a bottle. On the crumpled page that travelled over 5000 miles, he detailed being jailed for his spiritual beliefs, torture and brainwashing tactics. His message went viral and led to the closure of China’s entire labour camp system."
An Unexpected SOS: Letter From Masanjia At Settle Stories
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The rise, and rise, of China’s economic star has not seen an equivalent decline in its record on human rights abuses. Still in many ways a ‘closed shop’ to western eyes, those bywords for
A truly important documentary! Everyone needs to watch it.
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