Renwei Electronics helps authorities in Xinjiang, China track people in prisons and detention centers — alerting guards to their movements and even fitting them with heart rate monitors.
Last year, it won an “innovation” award at an Amazon-sponsored event buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Last year, it won an “innovation” award at an Amazon-sponsored event buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Renwei deploys its “smart prison” system in China’s Xinjiang region, where more than one million Muslim minorities have been locked up as part of what the US and other countries have called a genocide. buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Among the facilities using Renwei’s technology is Zhongjiazhuang Prison, administered by a paramilitary and governmental organization that the US placed sanctions on last year, citing its ties to human rights abuses in the region. buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Still, Renwei received a “product innovation award” recognizing it as one of six “outstanding entrepreneurial companies” at an event co-hosted by an Amazon-backed “joint innovation center” in November. buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Horizon Advisory, a Washington, DC–-based consulting firm, first made note of Renwei’s award and the Amazon event in a forthcoming report it shared with BuzzFeed News.
The Chinese government has forced upwards of a million Muslim minorities and others into prisons and internment camps in the past four years.
A BuzzFeed News investigation found the government had dramatically escalated its campaign since 2017 buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
A BuzzFeed News investigation found the government had dramatically escalated its campaign since 2017 buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Sent a detailed list of questions, Amazon declined to comment on our reporting. Renwei did not respond to a request for comment. buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
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