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One of Sweden’s most famous companies has for products in communist prisons. The furniture giant IKEA said it “deeply regrets” furniture that was made using labour in prisons in East Germany over twenty years ago. IKEA is famous for its modern, clean designs and reasonable prices. However, few people knew about a dark period in its history. The company now that political prisoners in communist East Germany were to make some of the furniture sold in IKEA stores across the world. This was before the of the Berlin Wall, when Germany was in two. IKEA manager Jeanette Skjelmose told reporters: “We deeply that this could happen.”

IKEA said it checks conditions at its suppliers very carefully. They also suppliers 20 to 30 years ago, but their checks did not the use of forced labour in prisons. Ms Skjelmose said: “The of political prisoners for manufacturing was at no point by IKEA….[30 years ago] we didn’t have the well- control system that we have today. We clearly did too little to [ those] methods.” Many of the prisoners now compensation – they want IKEA to pay them for their work. Human rights campaigner Rainer Wagner said many western companies cheap, forced prison labour in East Germany. He said: “IKEA is only the tip of the iceberg.”