Western Investors Cash in on Chinese Surveillance Program Targeting Muslims For ‘Re-Education’

"The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls 're-education centers.'"

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Two FBI officials say the state of forensics is fine. Here’s why they’re wrong.

"FBI agents and federal prosecutors aren’t evaluated for their allegiance to scientific principles. They’re evaluated on their ability to close cases and win convictions. Therefore, there’s a strong incentive for them to sacrifice sound science for expedience."

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Black Panther’s conviction overturned after 43 years in Louisiana solitary cell

"He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week."

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