DJI’s Hyperlinks to Human Rights Abuses in East Turkistan – sUAS Information – The Enterprise of Drones

A Uyghur Human Rights Venture briefing by Nuzigum Setiwaldi, the third in a UHRP collection analyzing the function of surveillance know-how and its influence on Uyghurs in East Turkistan. Learn our press assertion on the briefing; obtain the full briefing in English; and skim UHRP’s first two briefings within the collection specializing in Hikvision and Dahua.

Key Takeaways

• DJI is the world’s largest drone maker, producing drones price billions of {dollars} annually.

• The corporate is a serious provider of digital camera drones and different merchandise to 43 nations globally, together with the US, UK, and Australia. DJI drones are broadly utilized by governments, companies, and people, starting from photographers and filmmakers to public security companies, and police and navy forces.

• DJI drones make up over half of the drones offered within the US and make up practically 80 % of the US shopper drone market. In 2020, DJI drones accounted for 90 % of drones utilized by public security companies within the US and a big variety of the drones utilized by police forces within the UK and Australia.

• Though DJI is a privately held firm, it has acquired investments from state-owned enterprises in China and is assessed as a “Chinese language navy firm” by the US Division of Protection. 

• DJI is straight concerned in mass surveillance schemes in East Turkistan and has provided public safety companies with instruments to surveil and goal Uyghurs, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz folks.

• A number of governments have imposed commerce restrictions on DJI, however however, authorities companies, companies, and shoppers are nonetheless shopping for DJI drones.

• Regardless of advertising its merchandise as instruments to “save lives and profit society,” DJI is straight facilitating genocidal crimes and ought to be topic to complete sanctions, together with procurement bans, export bans, and funding bans. Retailers ought to instantly cease promoting DJI drones to shoppers.

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