![]() Prosper, now an attorney for legal and lobbying firm ArentFox Schiff, led an “introduction to human rights compliance” session. Last month, Hikvision convened a conference on environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, in Sydney, Australia. Prosper’s remarks in the leaked recording also make him the first person to publicly admit Hikvision’s complicity. ![]() official with a robust history of human rights work was being used to cleanse the image of a surveillance company now linked to violations so severe that they incurred U.S. The result makes for a potentially awkward scenario: A former U.S. A recent leaked recording, however, illustrated how much more Hikvision actually knew - and that these Hikvision projects were connected to companies that the U.S. ![]() The full review remained secret, but Hikvision released one sentence saying the company did not knowingly engage in human rights abuses. The company hired Pierre-Richard Prosper, the former ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Bush administration State Department and a war crimes prosecutor at the United Nations in the late 1990s. sanctions, Hikvison commissioned a human rights review of its five largest police projects in Xinjiang, which has a population of over 25 million. But the world’s largest security camera manufacturer has always denied their complicity in the violation of human rights against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. Hikvision’s cameras make up a large part of this system. Cameras line the streets, as well as the doors of homes and mosques, anchoring a system of repression that has led to the mass detention of thousands of people. In the western territory of Xinjiang, known as the Uyghur Autonomous Region, China has created intense surveillance networks to monitor and persecute the population.
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