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Tesco withdraws Christmas cards from sale after forced labour claims
Supermarket halts production in China after six-year-old girl finds plea for help inside card
Tesco says it has suspended production at a factory in China alleged to have forced foreign prisoners to help make charity Christmas cards and also withdrawn them from sale.
- Haroon Siddique
- The Guardian
The allegations came to light after the Sunday Times reported that Florence Widdicombe, aged six, from Tooting, south London, opened a box of charity Christmas cards from the…
The message read: “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qinqpu prison…
Forced to work…