• Tang Mingfang was jailed after disclosing illegal working practices at a Foxconn factory making Amazon products.
• Tang says he was tortured during the police interrogation process that led to his conviction.
• He has now called on Amazon chair Jeff Bezos to support an appeal against his conviction.

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A man who was jailed after blowing the whistle on illegal working practices at a Chinese factory that makes Amazon Echo and Kindle devices has called on Jeff Bezos to help overturn his conviction.

In 2019, Tang Mingfang leaked documents to China Labor Watch which revealed that the Foxconn factory, in Hengyang, China, was making schoolchildren work illegally long hours. Tang was later charged and convicted by Chinese authorities of leaking trade secrets. He was released in September 2021.

In a letter to the Amazon chair and founder, published by China Labor Watch on Sunday and first reported by The Observer, Tang says he was "tortured during the interrogation process" at the hands of police and "forced to make false confessions."

In the letter, Tang calls on Bezos to "ask Hengyang Foxconn to face up to its own problems, apologise to me, and come forward and communicate with the local court to assist me in the appeal...

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