Thread by @CharlesRollet1

BREAKING: Hikvision's human rights investigator admits the company's Chinese police contracts in #Xinjiang explicitly target Uyghurs as a group.

"You know, saying 'we wanted to monitor the Uyghur population'... maybe, [you] should say, 'well, wait a minute, not the population… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@BethanyAllenEbr has covered this in an excellent @axios article as well axios.com/2023/04/17/hik…

In 2019, facing US sanctions, Hikvision commissioned a human rights review of its massive #Xinjiang police projects.

That review has remained secret for years - until now.

For the first time, @ipvideo/@axios are reporting key details...

"in the contracts we saw some concerning language where it said 'Uyghurs'... [it] would appear that the contracts were looking at groups and not isolated to a criminal, let's say. So it was very general. And we said, 'this is a problem'..."

this is what the report's author told… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"We said, 'you gotta look at these contracts closely because... this is a problem, at least in the Western world, when you have a group that is being targeted''' twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"we want you to be sensitive to language that may cause you to raise an eyebrow. You know, saying 'we wanted to monitor the Uyghur population'. By itself is maybe, [you] should say, ‘well, wait a minute, not the population as a whole but there's criminal elements." twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Prosper blamed a "cultural divide" between "the West" and "China or any Communist-based societies" when it comes to the concept of human rights.

"We in the West, instinctively or initially, everything is [all about] human rights, individual rights, and that's the first thing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

chilling. Prosper says that in the "most concerning" Xinjiang contract,"the language identified terrorism, identified Uyghurs, and then basically explained that they [police] want to look at... religious facilities." twitter.com/i/web/status/1…