The World Uyghur Congress announced a pioneering legal action on Monday against three French subdivisions of the Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei, Hikvision, and Dahua to hold them accountable for providing Beijing with surveillance technology to facilitate the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
Over a third of police forces in the UK are using surveillance cameras made by companies with ties to the communist Chinese government.
The British government has ordered that Chinese-made surveillance cameras are no longer installed in “sensitive” areas over concerns of espionage.
Chinese-made surveillance cameras in Britain are made by companies linked to human rights atrocities and can pick up sound, with this capability able to be activated remotely, according to the British government’s “snooping tsar”.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) produced an internal document this week listing 20 Chinese companies it believes are owned or controlled by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The list, first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, includes telecom giant Huawei and Hikvision, a top supplier of video surveillance equipment. Both companies were blacklisted by the United States last year over security concerns.
The UK will promote a Chinese tech firm that is responsible for the mass security apparatus used to surveil minority groups in Xinjiang.
A group of prominent military veterans wrote a letter on Monday urging all American pension funds to refrain from investing in Chinese companies.
A Chinese electronics company called Hikvision, partly owned by the Communist government, was one of several such firms banned from working for the U.S. government under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed into law by President Trump on Monday.
