CCTV watchdog criticises Hikvision Uyghur response
CCTV Watchdog criticized Hikvision Uyghur Response
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The British CCTV watchdog has criticized a Chinese company because it doesn’t say if the camera is used in Uyghur’s internee camps.
Professor Fraser Sampson, said: “If your company is not involved in these terrible places, don’t you really want to say it?”
In July, MPS said Hikvision gave the “main camera technology” used in Uyghur’s internee camps.
The company said it respected human rights.
On July 8, MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee published a report saying: “Cameras made by Chinese Hikvision companies have been deployed throughout Xinjiang, and provides the main camera technology used in interbirth camps”.
More than one million Uyghur and other minorities are expected to be detained in camps in the northwestern area of ​​Xinjiang, where accusations of torture, forced labor and sexual harassment have emerged.
China has denied the allegations and claimed the “Education Back” camps used to fight terrorism.
The Foreign Affairs Committee recommends that Hikvision “may not be allowed to operate in England”.
In June, Biden President signed the executive order that prohibited US investment in Hikvision.
Hikvision cameras are widely used in the UK, including by many local councils.
In a letter sent to “partners” after the publication of the report, Hikvision wrote that the committee’s accusation “was unfounded and not supported by evidence”.
This is called advice on the ban on “knee jerk response … disproportionate, not measured, and strengthens the idea that this is motivated by political influence”.
Biometric commissioner
On July 16, Professor Sampson, Commissioner of the Biometric Camera and British Surveillance, followed up on the response, asked the company to accept that crime was being carried out against Uyghur and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
In a reply sent this week, Justin Hollis, Hikvision Marketing Director for UK & Ireland, wrote: “Beyond our ability to assess this issue, especially against the background in which the debate that surrounds Xinjiang geopolitical views come by colliding.”
The company said it was difficult to answer “narrow pointed questions on paper”, afraid of what was called “trial kangaroo by the media”.
It added that the “independent” report by the former US Ambassador to the problem of war crimes (2001-2005), Pierre-Richard Makmur, has concluded: “We did not find that Hikvision entered five projects in Xinjiang with the intention to be consciously involved in Human rights violations or find that Hikvision intentionally or deliberately commit human rights violations itself or that it act by ignoring. “
The company had previously said that it has maintained a law firm led by the Makmur Ambassador “to advise on human rights compliance”.
Hikvision said it fully embraced the principles of UN guidance on business and human rights.
The company said that it did not monitor or control the device once they passed to the installer, adding that “operational problems are not in our remittance”.
Simple question
But the answer to the letter was not a satisfying response to Professor Sampson, who told BBC: “This is a fairly simple question – ‘Is your camera used in these internal camps?'”
“Saying ‘we are not involved in operations’ or ‘we have no control over what is done with them’ not really the answer.”
He wrote: “Our parliamentary committee accepts that these internee camps exist and that substantial and sustainable human rights violations are being made possible by sophisticated supervision technology. I need to understand the level of Hikvision’s involvement.
He said he was “not impressed” with what he had heard, and still not sure he got “a complete account”.
The company has invited Professor Sampson to meet Ambassador Makmur, but the Commissioner said he wanted an answer
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