a few seconds agoBritish baby finds a message of congratulations sent by Chinese prisoners
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)China has dismissed charges of forced labour at a prison in Shanghai, after the media reported that a message was found in a Christmas wish saying it was packed without the will of prisoners, Reuters reports. A girl had found a message on a card she had bought [...]
A girl had found a message on a card she had bought in Tesco, a British supermarket.
The letter stated: “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai's Qinpgu prison. We are forced to work against our will. ”
The paper also reported that the message said that anyone receiving it would have to contact Peter Humphrey, a former journalist who investigated corporate fraud and was imprisoned in Cinpgu from 2014 to 2015.
The message was found by six - year - old Florence Widdicombe, who showed it to her father, reports the Times. And then he contacted Humphirey through LinkedIn.
Tesco said on Sunday that they have launched an investigation into the whole issue, Kosovo Press broadcasts.
On the other hand, Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said today that prison in Shanghai does not force prisoners to work against their will. He also added that it was a fiction traded by Humphrey.
“I've never had a chance to do anything to counterfeit this story,” said Humphrey to Reuters.
He added that he did not even know the family who had received the message, but also explained that the message coincides with everything he had talked to this year with former prisoners in prison who confirmed that they were packing Christmas cards for Tesco.
Otherwise, Humphrey spent 23 months in prison on the illegal registration charge of Chinese citizens, selling that information to clients, including GlaxoSmithKline. Humphrey said during the court process that he did not know the actions made were illegal.
