Tesco Christmas card China: Girl finds plea for help from Chinese prison laborer inside Christmas card – CBS News

Widdicombe said finding the message shortly before Christmas was poignant and that he told his daughter, Florence, what it might mean.

“We explained that the person who wrote it was a prisoner in China and that the person felt the prison guards were being mean, making them do work, they felt really sad,” the father said.

Humphrey told the BBC he thinks he knows who wrote the message.

“I spent two years in captivity in Shanghai between 2013 and 2015 and my final nine months of that captivity was in this very prison, in this very cell block where this message has come from,” he said. “So, this was written by some of my cellmates from that period who are still there serving sentences.”

He said he won’t identify the person for fear the inmate would face retribution. He added he was “pretty sure” it was put inside the card by a group of prisoners as a collective request for help.

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