Policemen patrol past a building's wall mounted with surveillance cameras in Peyzawat, western China's Xinjiang region on Aug. 31, 2018. After denying their existence for a year, Chinese authorities have recently argued that Xinjiang’s network of detention centers are built for educating and de-radicalizing a Muslim population that became increasingly influenced by extremist Islamic ideology. While the broad outlines of Xinjiang’s surveillance effort was previously known, the Human Rights Watch provided technical proof of Chinese authorities tracking a litany of lawful behavior. It was publicly available for download at one point, Human Rights Watch said. U.S. legislators led by Senator Marco Rubio have called on the Trump administration to levy sanctions against Chinese surveillance equipment manufacturers and restrict their access to U.S. financial markets.

Source: Washington Post May 02, 2019 03:50 UTC