{"id":12534,"date":"2019-12-29T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/28\/tesco-christmas-card-china-jail-inmates-claim-psychological-torture"},"modified":"2019-12-29T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:00:16","slug":"inside-the-chinese-jail-behind-the-christmas-card-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12534","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Chinese jail behind the Christmas card scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former inmates at the prison where a plea was smuggled out in festive cards for Tesco say they faced forced labour and psychological torture<\/p>\n<p>For more than three years, Leo spent his days at the Qingpu prison in Shanghai silently packaging sticky notes, face masks, gift bags and labels while guards kept close watch. If he refused, he would be punished \u2013 barred from reducing his prison sentence, making phone calls home, or worse.<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, a cry for help from Leo and other foreign inmates of Qingpu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/dec\/22\/tesco-halts-production-at-chinese-factory-over-forced-labour-claims-christmas-cards\" title=\"\">was smuggled out, hidden in a Tesco greetings card<\/a>. China has called the card and allegations of forced labour by foreign prisoners a \u201cfarce\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/28\/tesco-christmas-card-china-jail-inmates-claim-psychological-torture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former inmates at the prison where a plea was smuggled out in festive cards for Tesco say they faced forced labour and psychological tortureFor more than three years, Leo spent his days at the Qingpu prison in Shanghai silently packaging sticky notes, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12549,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}