Promoted as a tool to “maintaining stability,” the locks that use facial recognition, phones, or IDs, is a new addition to the system of complete surveillance.
Surveillance
New Stability Maintenance Target: LED Lightboxes
To prevent any anti-government content from appearing publicly, the CCP is taking measures to control the content of computer-controlled displays.
Huawei Smartphones to “Maintain Stability”
The specially developed new devises allow law enforcement officers to access databases of citizens using facial recognition and other biometric data.
Religious Suppressions Intensify in Shandong
A comprehensive crackdown is in progress: believers registered, sent to transformation through education “classes,” more surveillance cameras installed.
Database of Believers Established in Henan
The surveillance of church members is increasing, as their every move is monitored and personal information analyzed for further suppression and control.
Villager Suffers Retaliation for Reporting Corrupt Official
Wei Lihui was repeatedly beaten, detained, framed for a crime he did not commit and had his houses demolished for reporting a corrupt village Party secretary.
Punished for “Improper Speech”
In China, saying something that authorities deem “sensitive remarks” may be labeled “anti-Party” or “anti-social” and punished accordingly.
Control Intensified on Travels Abroad
Chinese authorities are confiscating citizen’s passports, making sure that only “politically clean” and patriotic individuals are allowed to go outside the country.
“Maintaining Stability” Measures Curb Academic Freedoms
University professors dismissed over comments, and control over students intensified, as Chinese authorities continue to crack down on dissent and free speech.
CCP Demands Cameras Installed in Rental Properties
China expands its draconian surveillance systems intended to monitor, track, and persecute citizens, with particular attention to transient and religious populations.