EXCLUSIVE: Hikvision internal review found Xinjiang contracts targeted Uyghurs
have accused Hikvision of participating in human rights abuses in Xinjiang — allegations the surveillance giant has rejected.In January 2019, as scrutiny of the company's Xinjiang operations grew, Hikvision hired Richard-Pierre Prosper, a lawyer and former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues in the George W. Bush administration, to conduct an internal investigation of its Xinjiang contracts. Prosper is currently a lawyer for D.C.-based legal and lobbying firm ArentFox Schiff.
"The most concerning on paper was the Moyu Project, which was down in the southern part of Xinjiang," Prosper says, referring to Xinjiang's Karakax County, a majority Uyghur region with numerous detention camps wherehave shown that police detained Uyghurs for normal religious practices such as praying regularly and wearing a veil.
Prosper says in the recording that his team told Hikvision: "We're not going to absolve the company." He pointed to some of the contracts that included "concerning" language "looking at groups and not isolated to a criminal." Prosper says he told the company, "This is a problem." In the recording, Prosper also says Hikvision built the systems but then handed them over to China without knowing how the government intended to use them. But he provides no documenting evidence.“As a global company, Hikvision takes human rights seriously and recognizes our social responsibilities.
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