{"id":33660,"date":"2021-07-02T21:18:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/france-investigates-fashion-brands-over-forced-uyghur-labour-claims"},"modified":"2021-07-02T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:18:19","slug":"france-investigates-fashion-brands-over-forced-uyghur-labour-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33660","title":{"rendered":"France investigates fashion brands over forced Uyghur labour claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniqlo France among four firms suspected of  profiting from crimes against humanity in Xinjiang<\/p>\n<p>French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four multinational fashion retailers on suspicion of concealing and profiting from crimes against humanity in China\u2019s Xinjiang region by sourcing goods produced using forced Uyghur labour.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial sources confirmed to French media on Friday the investigation concerned Uniqlo France, owned by Fast Retailing; Inditex, which owns Zara and Bershka; SMCP, the owner of the French fashion labels Sandro and Maje; and the footwear company Skechers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/france-investigates-fashion-brands-over-forced-uyghur-labour-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniqlo France among four firms suspected of  profiting from crimes against humanity in XinjiangFrench prosecutors have opened an investigation into four multinational fashion retailers on suspicion of concealing and profiting from crimes against humani&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1175,"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":[41,50,221,576,526,447,371,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-fashion","category-france","category-islam","category-religion","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33660","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\/1175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33660\/revisions\/33661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}