Huawei’s safe city solutions now serve more than 100 countries and regions

4-25-19    A young Uyghur woman interviewed on camera said  “If I didn’t come here, I can’t imagine the consequences.  Maybe I would have followed those religious extremists on the criminal path.  The Party and the government discovered me in time and saved me.”   https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/chinas-uyghur-re-education-centers-and-the-ghosts-of-totalitarians-past/

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1-9-19   Ondrej Klimes, a researcher with the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences who studies Xinjiang and the Uighurs:  “It makes the community easier to be subjugated, more cooperative, more docile.  You have this whenever an authoritarian regime comes they first target intellectuals.”

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  The article explained that "Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE are constructing smart cities in Pakistan, the Philippines and Kenya, featuring extensive built-in surveillance technology," and although "selling advanced equipment for profit is different than sharing technology with an express geopolitical purpose, these new capabilities may plant the seeds for global surveillance:  as governments become increasingly dependent upon Chinese technology to manage their populations and maintain power, they will face greater pressure to align with China’s agenda."

  Earlier this month ZDNet reported that "Serbia wants to use technology to improve public safety in its capital, Belgrade.  To that end, it has decided to implement Huawei's Safe City Solution – a surveillance system that includes the installation of thousands of security cameras." …

   "Huawei’s safe city solutions now serve over 700 cities across more than 100 countries and regions," the company claims, "including Brazil, Mexico, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, and Turkey.      https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/25/huawei-xinjiang-and-chinas-high-tech-surveillance-state-joining-the-dots/#131cc87fcd52

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1-8-2019     If they wanted to punish even heavier, they would put handcuffs [on us] and we would be forced to look at the wall across for about 17 hours."

"Sometimes they were tying up a weight of 5 kilograms to our feet as a way of punishment.  

Ms Jelilova, who is originally from Kazakhstan, has spent the last two decades doing business on the Chinese-Kazakhstani border.  She said in May 2017 she was arrested in the Chinese city of Urumqi on charges of illegal transferring 17,000 yuan ($3,500) between China and Turkey.

"While I was in the camp I told them that I was a foreigner and that I didn't have any wrongdoings," she said.  "We were told we didn't have any rights there.  We didn't have any rights to make phone calls outside … we were like dead people.  While I was in the cam, they used to give us injections, take blood samples, give medications that we didn't know," she said.  "If we asked what medication it was, they would penalise for asking this question.  And none of the female people were having monthly periods because they were giving us specific medication that was stopping the periods."...

She said she was beaten inside the camp and when she first entered she weighed 76 kilograms but within a month had lost more than 20 kilograms.  "The total aim of those concentration camps is to eliminate the Uyghur people, the Muslims," she said.   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-08/uyghur-woman-details-life-inside-chinese-re-education-camp/10697044