Tesco halts production at Chinese factory over alleged 'forced' labour
A Tesco spokeswoman said:"We were shocked by these allegations and immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation."
The factory in question was checked only last month and no evidence of it breaking the ban on prison labour was found, it said. The retailer has not received any other complaints from customers about messages inside Christmas cards.The message in the card urged the recipient to contact Peter Humphrey, a journalist who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as"bogus charges that were never heard in court".
Mr Humphrey - the author of the Sunday Times story - also said that censorship in the prison had increased, cutting off his usual methods of contacting prisoners he had met before his release in 2015.
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