Chinagate UK - Xmas cards by prisoners Archived Message
Posted by Tomski on December 23, 2019, 10:51 am, in reply to "China detaining millions of Uyghurs: CM take note - from Greyzone"
If posted already, I missed it. More China bashing. Bana for Xmas? Who is Peter Humphrey? - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11020542/GSK-China-crisis-British-investigator-Peter-Humphrey-accepts-charges.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50890519 Tesco Christmas card factory in China denies 'forced labour' A factory in China has denied it used forced labour after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside a Tesco charity Christmas card. The card supplier, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, told China's Global Times it had "never done such a thing". Tesco halted production at the factory on Sunday over the message, allegedly written by prisoners claiming they were "forced to work against our will". The Chinese foreign ministry said the allegation was "a farce". Speaking to the nationalist newspaper Global Times on Monday, a spokesman for the card supplier said: "We only became aware of this when some foreign media contacted us. We have never done such a thing. "Why did they include our company's name?" Girl's find in Tesco card halts China production The message - first reported by the Sunday Times - was found by Florence Widdicombe, who was writing cards to her school friends. She found that one of them - featuring a kitten with a Santa hat - had already been written in. In block capitals, it said: "We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation." The message in the card asked whoever found the message to contact Peter Humphrey, a British journalist who was himself imprisoned there four years ago. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, told reporters on Monday the allegation was "a farce" created by Mr Humphrey. "Shanghai's Qingpu prison has no such foreign prisoners undergoing forced labour," Mr Shuang said. Zhejiang Yunguang Printing's factory manager, Mr Shu Yunjia, told the BBC it had not outsourced any of its work to the Qingpu prison. Etc.
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