Prince Harry is invited to withdraw from the Apple TV show on mental health after the suicides at the iPhone factory

Prince Harry had been invited last night to withdraw from an Apple TV show on mental health because of the shocking conditions in some iPhone factories in China.

Activists claim that conditions lead to the suicide of desperate young workers – and warn that the prince is being used by Apple to "whitewash" its tarnished image.

Harry, 34, was recruited to play in the online television series with Oprah Winfrey.

The Prince, who launched his Heads Together campaign to advocate for youth mental health issues, said he was "incredibly proud" to be part of the series.

Activists say that Prince Harry is used to "whitewash" the image of tech giants. Photo: The future father and his brother William participating in an SOS DIY project benefiting former military personnel

Last year, an Apple Watch factory in Chongqing was accused of treating students "like robots" after forcing them to work 12 hours on unpaid hours.

But his partnership follows a series of suicides in an iPhone factory.

Fourteen workers – nearly half of them teenagers – were killed at the Shenzhen Foxconn supplier's Shenzhen factory in Shenzhen in 2010. This camp was later labeled a "labor camp" with abusive bosses.

Last year, an Apple Watch factory in Chongqing, southwestern China, was accused of treating students "like robots", forcing some of them to carry out shifts of unpaid work of 12 hours on production lines after having interned them.

Elaine Lu, of New York-based China Labor Watch, said, "Prince Harry just should not be working with Apple in this area. Our surveys show that abuses in these factories are still commonplace. & # 39;

Heather White, director of the award-winning film Complicity, which exposes the abuse of work in the iPhone factories, said that Harry was used to improve Apple's image. "The paradoxes of Harry doing a series on mental health with Apple TV are really great," she said.

Apple said it has improved the training of 250,000 employees in its supply chain on mental wellness and stress management.

Prince Harry launched the Heads Together campaign to advocate for youth mental health issues

In 2010, no less than 14 workers lost their lives at the Shenzhen factory in China