For human-rights watchers, Masanjia Labour Camp is the bleakest symbol of China’s totalitarian regime. In the country’s vast network of labour camps, it was always the most feared.
“Letter from Masanjia,” a new documentary by Vancouver director Leon Lee premiering at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto on April 27, tells the unlikely story of how one prisoner’s handwritten “SOS letter” found its way to America and put an international spotlight on China’s labour camp system.
