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Kazakhstan sentences 19 for protest against repression in China’s Xinjiang region

A Kazakh court has convicted 19 Kazakh activists after a protest against Beijing’s crackdown in China’s far-western Xinjiang region last year, in what advocates call an extraordinary move by the Kazakh government to silence dissident at the behest of Beijing.

 

Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool

Israel’s use of Tehran street cameras to help kill Iran’s supreme leader shows how everyday surveillance can turn into a wartime weapon.

 

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Photos show China’s low-cost lifestyle in vast, semiabandoned housing complexes

After China’s debt-fueled real estate bubble popped, vast housing developments across the country were left partially abandoned — including “Life in Venice,” a sprawling residential complex perched on China’s east coast.

 

PHOTO ESSAY: Under watch by Chinese tech, the Tibetan community in Nepal is slowly suffocating

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — In Nepal, the unseen eye has changed Tibetan life.

The cameras are not just machines perched on the thick bundles of wires that twist through narrow lanes of Kathmandu in Nepal.

 

US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.

 

PHOTO ESSAY: Invisible infrared surveillance technology and those caught in its digital cage

When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of your face, your body, your license plate lettering.

 

PHOTO ESSAY: In Texas, a former Chinese official targeted by Beijing’s surveillance finds refuge

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — The Chinese government is using an increasingly powerful tool to control and monitor its own officials: Surveillance technology, much of it originating in the United States, an Associated Press investigation has found.

 

A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing with help from US tech

Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing persecution from the Chinese government.

 

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Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump’s new policies

When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program, he left thousands stranded worldwide. Many had prepared for new lives in America, selling possessions and ending leases.

 

China’s surveillance state

While investigating China’s surveillance state, AP Beijing reporter Dake Kang traveled across continents to interview sources in person who were fearful for their safety.

 

GOP lawmakers urge Trump administration to back Falun Gong lawsuit against Cisco

Two prominent Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit against Cisco. The lawsuit claims Cisco’s technology was used to persecute Falun Gong members in China.

 

From beaches to ski slopes, photos show how cameras keep watch all over China

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has blanketed the country with the world’s largest network of surveillance cameras.

 

US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China, AP finds

Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press

 

Zion Church pastor has been detained in China, his daughter and a religion monitoring group say

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri of the Zion Church has been detained in China, according to his daughter and a monitoring group.

 

Lawmakers and activists call for action after AP reveals US tech role in China’s surveillance state

Lawmakers and activists are urging U.S. tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police.

 

PHOTO ESSAY: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

CHANGZHOU, China (AP) — China runs the largest digital surveillance apparatus on earth. An Associated Press investigation has found that American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

 

Takeaways from AP’s investigation into how US tech companies enabled China’s digital police state

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

 

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

 

How the AP uncovered US big tech’s role in China’s digital police state

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

 

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

 

Kenyan president vows closer ties to China during visit amid Trump’s trade war

Kenyan President William Ruto pledged to build closer ties with China on Thursday, a day after saying a global trade war triggered by Washington could deal a “death blow” to the current world order.

 

Beijing ups diplomatic pressure on Africa as the US pulls back

Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China, officials from the group told The Associated Press.

 

US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens.

 

Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uyghurs while making repeated public denials

Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled o

 

US charges Chinese hackers and government officials in a broad cybercrime campaign

China is denying the U.S. Justice Department’s accusations against 12 Chinese nationals charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities.

 

Thailand deports 40 Uyghur men back to China after more than a decade in detention

Thai and Chinese officials have confirmed that a group of 40 Uyghur men detained in Thailand for more than a decade have been deported to China.

 

Takeaways: Tesla has sued Chinese customers and journalists — and won almost every time

Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation and won just about every time.

 

Musk’s Tesla has silenced its critics in China — by suing its own customers

Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.

 

Uyghurs detained in Thailand say they face deportation and persecution in China

A group of Uyghurs who were detained in Thailand over a decade ago say that the Thai government is preparing to deport them to China, alarming activists who say the men are at risk of abuse and torture if they are sent back.

 

High-ranking military official in China suspended and placed under investigation

China’s Defense Ministry says a a high-ranking military official has been suspended while he is under investigation.

 

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