The UK-based supermarket giant Tesco has halted production at a Chinese factory suspected of using forced labour to produce charity Christmas cards.
The UK-based supermarket giant Tesco has halted production at a Chinese factory suspected of using forced labour to produce charity Christmas cards for chain.
It read: "We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qinqpu prison China forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation."The writer asked whoever received the note to contact Peter Humphrey, a former British journalist who was detained in China while working as a corporate investigator. Humphrey has spent time in Qinqpu prison.The London girl's father, Ben Widdicombe, said the family at first thought the message was a prank.
He said the message was eye opening: "It hits home there are injustices in the world and difficult situations that we know about and read about each and every day."Widdicombe said finding the message shortly before Christmas was poignant and that he told his daughter, Florence, what it might mean. Humphrey told the BBC he thought he knew who wrote the message. He said he would not identify the person for fear the inmate would face retribution.
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