Making Christmas Lights Until My Fingers Bled | Crystal Chen

Falun Gong practitioners are treated as slaves in China, Chen reveals. She was forced to do factory work for 16 hours a day, making anything from Disney merch to Christmas lights. Not only did the labor conditions mangle her hands, the guards also incentivized other inmates to abuse Falun Gong practitioners with an early release from prison.

In the CCP’s “cold genocide” campaign to eradicate Falun Gong, forced labor is only one of the tactics used to coerce practitioners into denouncing their faith.