Current Events > London girl finds disturbing message in Christmas card

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https://www.9news.com.au/world/tesco-london-girl-finds-disturbing-message-in-christmas-card/c6df1964-a775-43a8-92c1-945a78049160

UK-based grocery chain Tesco has halted production at a factory in China after a British newspaper reported it used forced labour to produce charity Christmas cards for the supermarket.

Tesco said it also launched an investigation of the Chinese supplier it hired to make the holiday cards, Zheijiang Yunguang Printing, after the Sunday Times raised questions about the factory's labour practices.

The newspaper said the potentially problematic province of the cards came to light when a 6-year-old girl in south London found a card in her box already had a message written inside.

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 and spent time at the same Shanghai prison.

The London girl's father, Ben Widdicombe, said Sunday they at first thought the message was a "prank."

"On reflection, we realised it was actually potentially quite a serious thing," Widdicombe said.

"So I felt very shocked, but also a responsibility to pass it on to Peter Humphrey as the author asked me to do."

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.

"We explained that the person who wrote it was a prisoner in China and that the person felt the prison guards were being mean, making them do work, they felt really sad," the father said.

Humphrey told the BBC he thinks he knows who wrote the message. He said he won't identify the person for fear the inmate would face retribution.

Humphrey said he was "pretty sure" it was put inside the card by a group of prisoners as a collective request for help.

Tesco said it was "shocked" by the discovery and would never allow prison labour in its supply chain.

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What the fuck?

I knew China sucked but this is much worse then I thought.

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creativerealms posted...

I knew China sucked but this is much worse then I thought.

"Apple CEO Tim Cook defends Chinese labor in 3, 2,...."

The company, BTW, denies it all but has completely shut down that factory, so whoever wrote that note is probably dead by now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50890519


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state sanctioned slave labor?
in China?
you don't say

And the unfortunate thing theres not a thing we can do about it.

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This is bleak.

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If we stop consuming everything that's a product of terrible working conditions, the modern world as we know it ends. Think about that

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I never doubted the horrible work practices of China and yeah we shouldn't support that crap.

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Mega_Greninja posted...

state sanctioned slave labor?
in China?
you don't say

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brotrrwinner posted...

If we stop consuming everything that's a product of terrible working conditions, the modern world as we know it ends. Think about that

Your nikes.
Your iphone parts.
All those cheap walmart plastic things.
Most electronics.
On and on.

Look for label:
Made in china

creativerealms posted...

I never doubted the horrible work practices of China and yeah we shouldn't support that crap.

How you gonna stop supporting it?

I would be pissed if my Christmas card came with that I would ask for a refund and get a new on

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s0nicfan posted...

whoever wrote that note is probably dead by now.

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Great, we comes World War III

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Bad_Mojo posted...

Great, we comes World War III

Tyrants only matter when they encroach on another tyrant's turf. It's why the magna carta became a thing. Do you honestly think intervention occurs just because mere peasants are being exploited? Hah! They're meant to be exploited. Doing it for the poor exploited masses is used as justification after the fact.
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It's a good thing if you're one of the rich elites who always benefit. It's bad for everyone else.
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Oh my god.
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Duncanwii posted...

And the unfortunate thing theres not a thing we can do about it.

Hey man. Let's stop being so pessimistic

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s0nicfan posted...

The company, BTW, denies it all but has completely shut down that factory, so whoever wrote that note is probably dead by now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50890519

Oh shit

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Th3HonestTruth posted...

To be fair, not having WWIII is pretty good for everyone

Not true for those who profit from war.
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Th3HonestTruth posted...

Cant really profit from war when youre a pile of ashes.

The ones who profit from war aren't the ones who suffer from it.
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Th3HonestTruth posted...

The only ones going to profit from WWIII in the long run are cockroaches

Nah, there are always shelters that they can live in that they've already built.
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Not really surprising. That whole joke about Chinese kids making nike's for $1 and selling them for $400 isn't a joke.

Th3HonestTruth posted...

Bro not even warmongers and billionaires want to live a life like that.

You haven't seen some of these shelters.
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