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Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision has activated alarms to aid the Chinese regime in tracking protesters and Falun Gong adherents, according to the latest report from Pennsylvania-based video surveillance information company IPVM.
Protest activities subjected to alarm include "gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places," "unlawful assembly, procession, demonstration," and threats to "petition," among several others.
In technical documentation accessible on Hikvision’s website, these actions are included alongside violations like “gambling” or "drug- related."
The alarms also aim at "religion" and "Falun Gong."
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline with meditative exercises and moral teachings. It grew in popularity during the 1990s leading to up to 100 million people practicing in China by the end of the decade. Perceiving this to be a threat, the Chinese regime in 1999 launched a nationwide campaign seeking to eradicate the practice....