World news – African Union – European Union employees reject Chinese Hikvision equipment due to Uighur crackdown

Brussels [Belgium], 13 November (ANI): Thousands of employees working in European Union institutions refused to use Chinese video surveillance technology provider Hikvision in light of the company’s association with China’s human rights violations, specifically the repression of millions of Uyghurs.

President Cristiano Sebastiani of the Association of Pioneering European Institutions, RenouveauDemocratie, who represents thousands of employees working in European offices, wrote a letter to Johannes Hahn, Commissioner in charge of Budget and Human Resources of the European Union Institutions, on Wednesday regarding the imaging systems used by the European Commission and the European Parliament, Produced by the Chinese technology giant Hikvision, according to a press release. .

Hikvision cameras have been installed at entrances throughout the European Parliament and have been installed in the European Commission’s main offices, Berlaymont Building and Charlemagne, according to the statement..

The Chinese company Hikvision has been accused of being linked to the crackdown on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in East Turkestan, Xinjiang, China, including providing surveillance equipment used in brutal « re-education camps ».

The Chinese government holds a controlling 40 percent stake in Hikvision via the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.

A leaked report from the German Foreign Ministry estimates that one million Uighurs in China are being held without trial. The report stated that Kazak, Kyrgyz and other Muslim minorities were imprisoned.

Sebastiani’s message comes after German member of the European Parliament (MEP) Reinhard Boutekofer, head of the European Parliament delegation to China, denounced the use of Hikvision technology by European institutions as “extremely worrying” because Hikvision is the company’s technology deeply complicit in the horrific persecution of the people. Uyghurs in Genocide Bordered Xinjiang « and that European institutions must » immediately create transparency and map out appropriate consequences: i. e. To sever any direct or indirect business relationship with Hikvision. Also, Charlie Wimmers, a Swedish member of the European Parliament from the European Conservative and Reformists Group, said that “the European Union should not have any dealings whatsoever with a Chinese company allegedly involved in some of the world’s most heinous human rights violations” and that “Nobel Prize winners should To adhere to higher standards. Svenia Hahn, a member of the European Parliament from the Renew Europe Group, wrote to the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, saying that she had found “it outrageous that European taxpayer money is being used to purchase surveillance equipment from a company whose products allow for increased surveillance, the suppression of minorities and gross violations of human rights. « .

The use of Hikvision by European institutions also sparked strong reactions from employees of EU institutions as well, expressing their dissatisfaction with having to confront a company accused of contributing to human rights violations in China. .

With regard to personal data management, a European Parliament spokesperson confirmed that « the equipment is not connected to the parliament’s computer network and does not record any data ». (ANI)

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