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Exposed database on Xinjiang using facial recognition tech shows depth of China's surveillance state
The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details. It was a compilation of real-time data on more than 2.5 million people in western China, updated constantly with GPS coordinates of their precise whereabouts. Alongside their names, birth ...
China surveillance firm tracking millions in Xinjiang, researcher says
A Chinese surveillance firm is tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in the far-western Xinjiang region, according to a data leak flagged by a Dutch internet expert. An online database containing names, ID card numbers, birth dates and location data was left ...
Missing Uighurs' kin demand 'proof of life' videos from China
Ethnic Uighurs have launched a global campaign to press China for video proof that their missing relatives are alive, turning the tables on Beijing's use of video to counter claims that a renowned Uighur had died in custody. The social media campaign was launched Tuesday ...
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says it is following the case of a Chinese-born Kazakh man who had been fighting attempts by Beijing to return him to China from neighboring Uzbekistan and whose current whereabouts are unknown. A spokesman said Monday that the embassy was ...
Rights groups urge U.N. to probe China crackdown in Xinjiang
Rights groups urged the United Nations Monday to send investigators to China's northwestern Xinjiang province to probe the mass detainment of ethnic Uighur and other Muslim minorities. "The abuse in Xinjiang today is so severe that it cries out for international action," Human Rights Watch ...
Security firm linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince signs preliminary Xinjiang training deal
A Hong Kong-listed security firm who has a former U.S. Navy SEAL on its board has signed a preliminary deal with authorities in China to build a training center in Xinjiang where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge security crackdown. Frontier Services Group, which specializes ...
China says it welcomes U.N. to visit Xinjiang via proper procedures
China said on Monday it would welcome U.N. officials to its far western region of Xinjiang if they follow the proper procedures, amid global concern over Beijing's de-radicalization program there. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang, asked at a regular briefing about reports that China had ...
China will not back down on what it sees as a highly successful de-radicalization program in Xinjiang that has attracted global concern, but fewer people will be sent through, officials said last week in allowing rare media access there. Beijing has faced an outcry from ...
Award-winning Chinese photographer missing in Xinjiang region, wife says
An award-winning Chinese photographer is missing and may have been detained by state security officers while visiting China's far-flung western Xinjiang region, his wife said. Lu Guang, a three-time World Press Photo award winner, had been invited to take part in photography events in the ...
China will retaliate 'in proportion' to any U.S. sanction over Muslim Uighurs, ambassador says
China will retaliate "in proportion" if the United States sanctions its top official in the restive region of Xinjiang over alleged human rights abuses, China's ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, adding that Beijing's policies in the region are to "re-educate" terrorists. Chinese ...
Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in its western Xinjiang region, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act would signal acceptance of "psychological torture of innocent civilians." Beijing has in recent months faced ...
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism," in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities. Those who surrender to judicial organs within 30 ...
