News report says a girl received the note saying 'foreign prisoners' in a Shanghai prison had packed the charity cards.
China dismissed accusations of forced labour at a Shanghai prison on Monday, a day after media reports that a message had been found in a Christmas card saying it had been packed by inmates.said a young girl had found a note in a charity card sold by British supermarket giant Tesco reading:"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison China. Forced to work against our will."
Tesco suspended the Chinese supplier of the Christmas cards on Sunday and said it had launched an investigation. Geng Shuang dismissed the whole story as"a farce created by Mr Humphrey" - an accusation dismissed by Humphrey. Humphrey said the message fitted"with everything I know, and I have spoken with ex-prisoners who were released this year and who confirmed that that prison unit was making packaging for Tesco Christmas cards."
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