China’s Golden Shield: Is Cisco Systems Complicit?
By Beth Van Schaack on March 24, 2015 at 5:15 am
This is Part I of a series on a case pending in the Northern District of California against Cisco Systems involving the company's provision of technology to help construct, operate and maintain China's Golden Shield, a network surveillance system that was allegedly used to target Falun Gong practitioners for persecution. Part I outlines the claims in and procedural posture of the case; Part II discuses some of the legal issues in play with reference to other cases of corporate complicity in human rights abuses under the Alien Tort Statute. Read more about China’s Golden Shield: Is Cisco Systems Complicit?