Chinese greetings card factory denies using forced labour after six-year-old girl found message from workers inside Tesco charity Christmas card
- 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.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters on Monday the allegation was"a farce" created by Mr Humphrey.Zhejiang Yunguang Printing's factory manager, Shu Yunjia, told the BBC it had not outsourced any of its work to the Qingpu prison.Florence Widdicombe was writing the cards last Sunday when she discovered the message
The supermarket said it has a"comprehensive auditing system" to ensure suppliers are not exploiting forced labour. The message in the card urged the recipient to contact Peter Humphrey, who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as"bogus charges that were never heard in court".
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