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China Dismisses Allegations of Prisoner-Made Adidas Footballs 

BEIJING -- (Reuters) A Chinese prison official on Thursday dismissed 
allegations that prison labor was used to manufacture footballs in 
Shanghai for the Adidas sports label. 

"No prisons or labor education camps in Shanghai produce any foreign 
brand footballs," an official of the Shanghai Prison Administration 
Bureau said by telephone. 

The German sports equipment maker Adidas-Salomon AG said on Wednesday it 
had stopped orders for soccer balls made in China while it investigated 
whether prison labor was used in their manufacture. 

The allegations were raised by exiled Chinese dissident Bao Ge. Bao told 
a news conference last month he had sewn Adidas World Cup footballs 
while serving in the Shanghai First Labor Education Camp from 1994 to 
1997. 

Adidas also said it had canceled all its current licensing contracts, 
effective the earliest legal termination date, and was reviewing all its 
ball suppliers from whom it buys up to five million balls a year. 
((c)1998 Reuters) 




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