Surveillance

Chinese Police in the Uyghur Homeland utilize a list of 50,000 multimedia files of alleged ‘terrorists or otherwise violent individuals’ to flag Uyghur and other Turkic residents for interrogation in ‘Xinjiang’ (that Uyghurs prefer to call East Turkistan), Human Rights Watch reports.

The Shanghai police are constructing a comprehensive surveillance network that alerts the authorities whenever foreign journalists book transportation to Uyghuristan, IPVM reports.

United States may place Hikvision, the world’s largest video surveillance manufacturer, on the Specially Designated National (SDN) list. If enacted, this would be a historical development in US-China relations, an IPVM Report says.

Huawei has been involved in building technology for labor and re-education camps in ‘Xinjiang’ (Uyghurstan / East Turkistan), according to PowerPoint presentations obtained and translated by The Washington Post. The metadata in the files places them anywhere between 2014 and 2020.

The Chinese province of Henan is building a surveillance system with face-scanning technology that can detect journalists and other people of interest, surveillance analysts IPVM reports. Chinese firm Neusoft, backed by Huawei cloud services, has won a tender to build the system. It will operate like traffic lights and divide people into different categories: green, yellow, and red. Anyone labeled red would ring an alarm.

Major UK cities use the same surveillance technology as the Chinese Government uses in Uyghur internment camps in Xinjiang, The Mail on Sunday reports. The US has black-listed both Hikvision and Dahua over links to human rights abuses. The UK Government, however, has not sanctioned the companies.