Fashion brands face inquiry over suspected links to Uighur slave labour
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By Elizabeth Paton, Léontine Gallois and Aurelien Breeden
July 3, 2021 11.36am
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France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into four leading fashion retailers over suspicions that they benefited from and concealed crimes against humanity by using forced labour by Uighurs in China.
The investigation by the French prosecutors started last month following accusations that the companies Inditex, the owner of Zara; Uniqlo; Skechers; and SMCP, which owns brands such as Sandro and Maje had profited from human rights violations in the Xinjiang region of China, a French judicial official confirmed Friday.
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