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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

Human rights group urges UK financial regulator to block Shein’s LSE flotation

A large illuminated display reading 'Shein' with clothes rails in the background
A Shein pop-up store at a mall in Singapore, where the China-founded company has its headquarters. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters

A human rights group has urged Britain’s financial regulator to block the Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein’s planned blockbuster flotation on the London Stock Exchange.

Stop Uyghur Genocide, a UK-based human rights charity that alleges minority Uyghur people are being used as forced labour at some of Shein’s cotton suppliers in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, has begun a legal campaign against the planned stock market listing.

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