Record type: Historical press advisory
Date: July 2, 1998
Archive Summary
The Free China Movement announced a press conference and support for legal action concerning allegations of prison-labor production connected to Adidas.
Archive status: Verified primary-source mirror provenance confirmed. The original Tripod mirror is currently unavailable (502). Allegations remain allegations; full-text archival capture is pending. This page records a verified archival record, not a reconstructed quotation.
Original primary-source mirror: chinadp[.]tripod[.]com/pr/pr701.html — currently unavailable; the research archive source-control record is retained for provenance and recovery.
Independent scholarly reference
Chetan Kumar’s chapter “Transnational Networks and Campaigns for Democracy,” in The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000), describes the Free China Movement as having persuaded Adidas to abandon manufacture of soccer balls in China because of forced-labor allegations. This later secondary-source attribution is significant corroborating evidence of the campaign’s public impact, but it should not by itself be treated as proof of every underlying allegation or as a complete reconstruction of Adidas’s decision-making.
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