EXCLUSIVE: Security officials in one of China's largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they want to use to track journalists and international students among other 'suspicious people', documents reviewed by @Reuters show reut.rs/3D4nlqM 1/6
A tender document published on the Henan provincial government’s procurement website details plans for a system that can compile individual files on people of interest coming to Henan 2/6
The system will use 3,000 facial recognition cameras that connect to national and regional databases 3/6 
A U.S.-based surveillance research firm, which has tracked the network's expansion and first identified the Henan document, said the tender was unique in specifying journalists as targets and providing a blueprint for authorities to quickly locate them and obstruct their work 4/6
Another category of people it said it wants to track are 'women from neighboring countries that are illegal residents.'
The documents does not give reasons for why it is tracking these people 5/6
The documents does not give reasons for why it is tracking these people 5/6
The system will be operated by at least 2,000 officials and policemen, and specifies that journalists will be divided into three categories: red, yellow, green, in decreasing order of risk, according to the tender. Read more 👉 reut.rs/3D4nlqM 6/6
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