A major investigation links over 100 global brands, including NBA-affiliated companies like Anta, Li-Ning, and 361 Degrees, to forced labor abuses in China's Xinjiang region. Factories owned by these brands, as well as home appliance companies like Haier and TCL, have used workers from a controversial labor transfer program.

Company responses are included in the report. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Arsenal FC to respond to the allegations as a partner of TCL, Arsenal FC did not respond.