One of the prisoners in a Chinese jail who scribbled a despairing message on a Tesco Christmas card has revealed that he and a fellow inmate had smuggled similar pleas for help into 10 boxes of cards. The Nigerian inmate was one of several former prisoners who came forward last week to describe the use of forced labour in Shanghai’s Qingpu prison, which appears to have been the source of the charity Christmas cards supplied to Tesco supermarkets. Only one of the 10 messages scribbled by two Nigerian inmates is known to have been found, but its discovery by Florence, a six-year-old London schoolgirl, before Christmas was enough to trigger an international furore over the use of prison labour in China. One of the inmates,…

Source: The Times December 29, 2019 00:00 UTC