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Chinese cities roll out gait-recognition technology, alarming human rights campaigners

December 8, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by IT Pro on November 8, 2018 Surveillance technology claimed to recognise walkers from a silhouette with 94% accuracy Facial-recognition technology has been a feature of Chinese cities for some time, but authorities now have a new tool in their arsenal: gait-recognition. The technology – the work of (read more…)

Canada, Western countries condemn China at UN for repression of Muslims

December 8, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by The Globe & Mail on November 6, 2018 Canada has publicly accused China of repressing Muslims amid a “deterioration of human rights.” China must “end prosecution and persecution on the basis of religion or belief,” Tamara Mawhinney, Canada’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said on (read more…)

Chinese surveillance grows stronger with technology that can recognise people from how they walk

December 8, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by The Telegraph on November 6, 2018 Chinese cities are rolling out a new “gait recognition” software that identifies people using their silhouettes and how they walk, even if their faces are obscured, in the latest tightening of the country’s security. Chinese cities are rolling out a new (read more…)

Detained, Ailing Chinese Activist Faces Neglect, Death in Police Detention: Groups

December 8, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 5, 2018 A day before the United Nations conducts a review of China’s record on human rights, several groups on Monday called for the immediate and unconditional release of a veteran rights activist in its southwestern province of Sichuan. Citizen journalist and (read more…)

China accused of increasing repression of activists cooperating with UN

December 8, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Outlook on November 1, 2018 Beijing, Nov 1 Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) on Thursday alleged that China’s government has become more aggressive in the last four years in reprisals against activists and organizations that cooperated with the UN in the country and abroad. The NGO in (read more…)

Beijing signals tighter control over dissenting scholars

December 8, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by University World News on November 1, 2018 A change in the highest echelons of China’s top university in Beijing is being seen by academics as a new tightening of control over dissenting thought among scholars as well as stronger oversight by the Communist Party of top universities (read more…)

UK confirms reports of Chinese mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims

December 7, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on October 31, 2018 British diplomats who visited Xinjiang have confirmed that reports of mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims were “broadly true”, the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has told parliament. Beijing faces mounting international criticism over its policies in Xinjiang, a far-western territory of China (read more…)

China’s Ruling Communist Party Wages Ideological War on University Campuses

December 7, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on October 18, 2018 The administration of President Xi Jinping is stepping up a nationwide political campaign targeting higher education institutions in China, as a number of professors have lost their jobs over comments made online or in public, an overseas rights group said (read more…)

China Tries Website Editor For Refusing to Comply With Delete Request

December 7, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on October 18, 2018 A website editor who failed to implement a delete notice from China’s internet police has stood trial at a court in the southwestern province of Sichuan on charges of “failing to perform internet security management duties.” Xu Hua pleaded not (read more…)

Internment camps for Muslim Uighurs make their lives ‘colourful’, Chinese governor claims

December 4, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by The Telegraph on October 16, 2018 China’s detention camps are “training” centres that have made lives more “colourful” for Muslim minorities by saving them from extremist behaviour, a senior official said on Tuesday, in a robust defence of the policy amid growing international criticism. Shohrat Zakir, governor of Xinjiang, (read more…)

China’s Middle East policy runs into problems

December 3, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by The Arab Weekly on October 14, 2018 China’s rise to the rank of major world power has mostly been on its own terms. That is true considering this rise from an economic standpoint but it has also been true in the country’s foreign policy. In recent years, (read more…)

Beaten, terrified and disappeared: China cracks down on faulty vaccine outcry

December 3, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on October 12, 2018 There are fears for the safety of a woman campaigning about China’s defective vaccines, with activists saying she has been missing for more than 40 days. Authorities have been clamping down on families demanding redress over hundreds of thousands of doses issued (read more…)