Lal Behari got up all fresh and bright one morning and walked to the bank--where he found out that he was dead. Or he was on paper, anyway. And no matter how hard he tried to prove his existence, nobody would believe otherwise.
Right or wrong, John “narced” out his best buddy. He learned the hard way that when you go undercover for “The Man”, you can kiss your old life goodbye.
Produced by Andrew Parsons, with sound design by Stephanie Foo and Anna Sussman.
In China, local governments can often be corrupt, but you can’t bring them to court. You have to go through a long, painful bureaucratic process called “petitioning.” Some camp for years in a makeshift “petition village”, awaiting their chance at justice. Qi and her daughter Juan, just two petitioners out of millions, give everything up to find justice. The audio from this story is taken from the documentary Petition, by Zhao Liang.
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