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Relevant to AI safety discussions on how surveillance technologies and AI tools are deployed by authoritarian governments; useful context for governance debates around facial recognition, predictive policing, and state control of AI systems.
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Human Rights Watch's annual documentation of human rights conditions in China during 2023, covering state surveillance, repression of civil society, treatment of ethnic minorities, and restrictions on political freedoms. The report provides detailed accounts of government abuses including surveillance technology deployment, crackdowns in Hong Kong, and ongoing persecution of Uyghurs and Tibetans.
Key Points
- •Documents China's expansive surveillance infrastructure used to monitor and control citizens, dissidents, and ethnic minorities
- •Covers ongoing repression in Hong Kong under national security law, including prosecution of activists like Chow Hang-tung
- •Details continued mass detention and persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang using AI-driven surveillance tools
- •Highlights suppression of civil society, lawyers, journalists, and political dissidents throughout mainland China
- •Provides primary source documentation relevant to understanding how authoritarian states deploy AI and surveillance at scale
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Events of 2023
Chow Hang-tung (R) arrives at the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on June 8, 2023.
© 2023 ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP via Getty Images
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Keynote
The Human Rights System Is Under Threat: A Call to Action
Tirana Hassan
Former Executive Director
In late 2022, the Chinese government abruptly ended its draconian “zero Covid” policy. As much of the population—and the medical establishment—was unprepared, Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths surged. Officially, the government estimated that there were 60,000 “excess deaths” in December 2022; a US academic study put the figure at 1.87 million deaths between December 2022 and January 2023. The true toll will likely remain unknown due to severe censorship.
Ten years into President Xi Jinping’s rule, repression deepens across the country. The Chinese government continues its abusive policies against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, which amount to crimes against humanity. In both Tibet and Xinjiang, those who contact family and friends abroad, or who advocate for their culture, language, and religion, risk being treated as “separatists” and have been given harsh prison sentences. Across China, the government is further tightening social controls. There is no independent civil society; even small pockets of freedom are eliminated. In Hong Kong, the Chinese government has assumed full control over the city since imposing the National Security Law in 2020.
The Chinese government’s list of political targets continues to expand. Even those who work for foreign entities in China’s cosmopolitan cities find themselves in the crosshairs, with revisions to a law on “counter-espionage” in July and with the state security ministry encouraging the population to report alleged spies.
As the economy slows, small protests have flared, such as those by pensioners against cuts to their medical insurance in Febr
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