Indy shouted continued to sell sweat cotton in Xinjiang, said last year’s visit to the cotton fields did not see violations

The parent company of MUJI Ryojin Project President Matsuzaki Xiao was asked about the Xinjiang sweat cotton issue, repeatedly dodged.

Japanese grocery brand “Indy” may not be the extent of market value evaporation is not serious enough, it is suspected that the blind eye, the parent company “Ryokan Project” held an online earnings presentation on the 14th, the issue of Xinjiang sweat cotton dodged again and again, only in the official website issued a statement that Last year, commissioned an independent monitoring unit to investigate the supply chain, did not find any major problems, so will still sell the use of cotton in Xinjiang, and even said that because of the use of organic cotton, to promote local employment opportunities, President Matsuzaki Xiao is not respond to related issues.

The Chinese Communist Party’s oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang has become a global public enemy, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand and Australia, all of which have been found to be involved in genocide. As the Communist Youth League has recently turned up the well-known international clothing brand H&M had issued a statement refusing to use Xinjiang cotton, which has caused a global storm, and MUJI is leading the global contradiction, shouting to continue to use Xinjiang cotton, the market value of the stock market overnight evaporated 22.9 billion yen.

Parent company “good plan” 14 held online earnings presentation, while the official website issued a press release, claiming that about 5,000 hectares of cotton production in the Xinjiang region farms, accounting for 80% to 90% of China’s total cotton production, according to the company’s cotton field information, workers, etc., have sent external independent third-party organizations for on-site audits, the latest of which was last year, and no major violations were found.

The statement also explained that since 2018, all cotton used in MUJI-related products is 100% organic cotton, certified under conditions that comply with international labor conventions business practices set by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and also passes annual audits by third-party organizations. The company is also proud to say that they are sourcing from India, China, Turkey and the United States and are increasing employment opportunities in the region by expanding organic cotton cultivation and production.

When pressed on the issue of sweat cotton in Xinjiang, Hiroshi Matsuzaki, president of Ryokan Project, said that the statement was the most comprehensive explanation the group had made and that he himself could not provide more information.