The Sun – A girl aged six discovered a desperate note in her Tesco Christmas cards from caged slaves in China forced to work against their will. Florence Widdicombe, from Tooting, south London, was stunned when she opened the new box of charity cards to send to her friends and found the scrawled message inside. It is believed to have been written by a foreign prisoner who was made to pack the cards in boxes at a gulag in Shanghai, the Sunday Times reports.
Inside one card, featuring a cute kitten in a Santa hat on the front, it said: “We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. “Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify the human rights organization.” Florence’s dad Ben said: “When I looked at the message in the card I thought it was incredible and wondered if it was a prank.” He decided it would be “wrong not to pass it on to its intended recipient. It must have been very risky for those prisoners.” READ MORE
