China denied accusations of forced labour at a Shanghai
prison on Monday, a day after media reports that a young girl had found a message in a
Christmas card saying it had been packed by inmates.
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It said the message urged whoever received it to contact Peter Humphrey, a
British former journalist and corporate fraud investigator who was imprisoned in the same jail from 2014-2015.
Tesco suspended the Chinese supplier of the Christmas cards on Sunday and said it had launched an investigation.