The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote about Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP), Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), and Human Rights Action Group (HRAG)’s targeted sanctions submission and the Canadian government’s failure so far to impose sanctions on the four China-based surveillance technology companies that are implicated in the repression and genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.

The comprehensive, 345-page targeted sanctions submission, which was sent to Global Affairs Canada in May 2024, requests that companies Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview, and Tiandy be added to Canada’s Special Economic Measures (People’s Republic of China) Regulations, on the basis of substantial evidence that these entities have responsibility for numerous gross violations of human rights committed against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China.