{"id":1901,"date":"2014-06-27T03:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2014-06-27T03:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:45:05","slug":"primark-investigates-claim-of-cry-for-help-note-in-trousers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/primark-investigates-claim-of-cry-for-help-note-in-trousers","title":{"rendered":"Primark investigates claim of &#8216;cry for help&#8217; note in trousers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:46 ET<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The customer said she found the SoS note inside a pair of trousers bought in Primark&#8217;s Belfast store<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/75819000\/jpg\/_75819330_chinasosnoteclose-upjune2014(2).jpg\" width=\"549\" height=\"549\" \/><br \/>\nThe note was inside a pair of trousers bought in Primark&#8217;s Belfast store<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A shopper has claimed she found a &#8220;cry for help&#8221; note hidden inside a pair of trousers alleging slave labour conditions in a Chinese prison.<\/p>\n<p>The note, wrapped in a prison identity card, claimed inmates were forced to work 15 hours a day making clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Wis\u00ednska said she bought the trousers in Primark&#8217;s Belfast store in June 2011 but had never worn them. She discovered the note just last week.<\/p>\n<p>A Primark spokesperson said the firm has begun an immediate investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The writer of the note claimed inmates were forced to work &#8220;like oxen&#8221; and were given food that would be considered unfit for animals.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known if the allegations made in the note are genuine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Shocked&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Wis\u00ednska, who lives in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, bought the trousers during a shopping trip to Belfast three years ago, but had never worn them because when she took them home, she found the zip was broken.<\/p>\n<p>She put them into her wardrobe and did not take them out again until last week, when she was packing clothes for a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-28018137\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:46 ET &#038;n &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/primark-investigates-claim-of-cry-for-help-note-in-trousers\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1343,513],"views":1903,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}