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The British supermarket giant Tesco announced this Sunday that it has stopped selling Christmas cards made in China after being in one of them, a message from prisoners working in it .

According to The Sunday Times , a 6-year-old girl on the outskirts of London found a message in capital letters, which claimed to be written by the prisoners at the Qingpu prison in Shanghai .

"We are foreign prisoners in the Qingpu prison in Shanghai, China," says the message, written on an illustrated card with a kitten. "Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify [some] organization for Human Rights."

"Surprised," the number one supermarket in the United Kingdom "immediately suspended [production in] the factory where the cards were manufactured and opened an investigation," a spokeswoman said.

"We also removed those cards from the sale," whose benefit is donated to charities, he said.

According to the spokeswoman, Tesco has an "exhaustive control system." The factory, which according to the group is called Zheijiang Yunguang Printing, was subject to an "independent control" in November and "no element was found to suggest that it had violated our rule, which prohibits prison work , " he said , what would have happened. entailed a "immediate and definitive" contract break.

According to the Sunday Times , the message also claimed to "contact Peter Humphrey."

The girl's father searched the name on Google and discovered that it was the former journalist and private investigator who was arrested in summer 2013 and sentenced in 2014 to two and a half years in prison for violation of Chinese laws on privacy, while practicing in the country on behalf of the British group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

Humphrey, who signed the Sunday Times article , served part of his sentence in Qingpu jail. He explained that he had contacted former jail inmates, who confirmed that they had been forced to pack the cards for Tesco.

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