Beijing / 11.12.2020 23:20:22
China rejected this Friday to comment on the decision of the French footballer Antoine Griezmann of break your business link with the telephony giant Huawei, suspected of participating in the surveillance of the Uyghur Muslim minority by the country’s authorities.
“Every independent entity has the right to collaborate with whoever believes convenient. It is their business, “he stressed Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a press conference.
“Following strong suspicions that the company Huawei could have contributed to development of an ‘Uyghur alert’ through facial recognition software, I announce that I immediately end my collaboration with this company, “wrote the attacker of the FC Barcelona, what had an ambassador contract with the brand since 2017.
Uighurs constitute the main ethnic group of Xinjiang, a huge Chinese region with 25 million inhabitants that shares a border with Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan.
According to foreign experts, one million uyghurs have been located in recent years in political reeducation camps. Beijing denies this figure and assures that it is vocational training centers destined to alienate people from the temptation of Islamism, terrorism and separatism, following a series of attacks attributed to Uyghurs.
The Asian giant has imposed a drastic police surveillance, with countless surveillance cameras.
On Tuesday, Huawei was pointed out in U.S for having been involved in test of this detection software, according to him investigation office IPVM.
Huawei has firmly denied these allegations, but was unable to convince Griezmann, brand ambassador since 2017.
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