A few days ago in England, 6-year-old Florence Widdicombe sat down to write some Christmas cards bought from the supermarket chain, Tesco. Inside one of the cards was the message, “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China: Forced to work against our will.” Host Marco Werman has the story.
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