Ikea regrets using political prisoners to make products
Ikea has said it regrets using political prisoners in East Germany to make some of its products in the 1980s.
An independent report concluded managers at the Swedish furniture chain were aware of the possibility that prisoners were being used by suppliers - but did not do enough to prevent it.
Author Anna Funder wrote a book exploring what life was like under communist rule in East Germany:
"One of the people I met was kidnapped from a bus stop in the morning, loaded into a car, and from there into a van, and that was how the authorities used to disguise the movement of prisoners"
