“We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison China …
“Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.”
With Tesco stopping the card production … will prisoner conditions deteriorate further?
From another source …
“We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn’t even be given to dogs or pigs.”
Much of Australian business went offshore to China with firm owners here making very large profits … at the expense of job losses for their Australian employees … the consequences are many including slave conditions for prisoner workers in China, inferior imported products that rapidly become landfill in Australia,…
*with CCP member Visa holders flying into Australia to become ‘home owners and Permanent Residents’ … locking out our Families … *
This dates back to the Howard Government from 1996 with “Flexible Citizenship’ for Middle Class Chinese investing in real estate and education …
NOTE … we went back to obtain the source link to find this article has been updated!
‘We thought it was a prank’: London schoolgirl discovers China prisoner plea in Tesco Christmas card
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British supermarket Tesco has suspended a Chinese supplier after a customer allegedly found a message from a prisoner written inside a charity card.
UPDATED 23 DECEMBER 2019
Supermarket giant Tesco has stopped production at a factory in China after one of its Christmas cards was found to contain a cry for help from a prisoner who made it.
The Sunday Times newspaper reported that a London schoolgirl had opened a card last weekend to find a message inside claiming to be from inmates at Shanghai’s Qingpu Prison.
Florence Widdicombe, 6, was writing cards to school friends when she found the note.AAP
“We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison China,” said the message, in a Tesco charity card featuring a kitten in a Santa hat.
“Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.”
A Tesco Christmas card from the same pack as one found to contain a message from a Chinese prisoner.
Tesco is Britain’s largest retailer and the world’s third-biggest supermarket chain with global operations that include China, India and Ireland.
A spokeswoman said it was “shocked” at the revelation.
It had “immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced” and withdrawn the cards from sale pending an investigation.
“We abhor the use of prison labour and would never allow it in our supply chain,” she said.
Tesco said it had a comprehensive auditing process in place.AAP
The company said the card involved was produced at Zheijiang Yunguang Printing, where an independent audit was carried out as recently as November 2019.
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“If evidence is found we will permanently de-list the supplier.”
The firm added that it had 35 full-time sourcing managers working across Asia, who visited factories to ensure good working conditions.
‘Ask for Peter’
According to media reports, it is not the first such case.
In 2017, a message in Chinese characters was found in a box of Christmas cards from retailer Sainsbury’s in Essex, southeastern England.
When translated, it reportedly said: “Wishing you luck and happiness” and was signed “Third Product Shop, Guangzhou Prison, No 6 District.”
In 2014, a woman in Northern Ireland found a note on a pair of trousers from low-cost shop Primark saying: “We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn’t even be given to dogs or pigs.”
The family who found a message from a Chinese prisoner in a Christmas card said they thought it was a “prank”.AAP
After the latest note was found by six-year-old Florence Widdicombe, her father admitted that he initially thought it was a prank.
“On reflection, we realised it was actually potentially quite a serious thing, so I felt very shocked,” Ben Widdicombe told reporters.
According to the Sunday Times, the message asked whoever received it to contact “Mr Peter Humphrey”.
Ben Widdicombe searched for Humphrey online and discovered that he was a former journalist who had spent nine months in Qingpu.
*He got in touch and Humphrey contacted some other ex-prisoners, who confirmed that foreign inmates had been packing cards for Tesco.
Humphrey, a fraud investigator who had previously worked for news agency Reuters, then wrote up the story for The Times.
The message urged the reader to contact Peter Humphrey, a former journalist who spent 23 months imprisoned in China.AP
He and his wife Yu Yingzeng, a naturalised US citizen, ran an investigative firm hired by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which faced a bribery investigation in China.
They were charged in 2013 with illegally obtaining personal information, were convicted in August 2014 and deported the following year.
Charity Christmas cards are popular in Britain and multi-pack boxes can be bought from supermarkets at low cost.
Tesco said it donates £300,000 (AU$575,795) a year to three health charities from its Christmas card sales
SOURCE AFP – SBS
Also reported by The New Daily and the ABC
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