Two weeks later, simon thinks hes being followed again. Around the same time, simon receives an anonymous e mail. Its title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. Simon cheng is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. Four years ago, he was working at the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. Weeks later, he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. Simon says the police used his visit to a Massage Centre to accuse him of soliciting prostitution. They framed me up to say i solicited prostitutes. Simon says he was accused of being a british spy, then tortured. He says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair. Seen here in videos from chinese social media. When simon was released, he fled to the uk and has now been granted asylum. In london, he set up an organisation to help others whove left hong kong. Today, his house is on a special Police Protection register and hes constantly looking over his shoulder.
to a massage centre to accuse him of soliciting prostitution. they framed me up to say i solicited prostitutes. simon says he was accused of being a british spy, then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair. ..seen here in videos from chinese social media. when simon was released, he fled to the uk and has now been granted asylum. in london, he set up an organisation to help others who ve left hong kong. today, his house is on a special police protection register and he s constantly looking over his shoulder. the chinese embassy in london didn t answer panorama s questions about simon cheng. my name isjohn culver. i was an analyst specialising on east asia for the central intelligence agency. it s gotten more like classic cold war. for decades, chinese intelligence was fairly casual, not very aggressive, and that s changed progressively over 20 years and especially over the last decade. so, we re seeing more what i would call classic spycraft. c
two weeks later, simon thinks he s being followed again. around the same time, simon receives an anonymous e mail. its title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. simon cheng is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. four years ago, he was working at the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. weeks later, he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. simon says the police used his visit to a massage centre to accuse him of soliciting prostitution. they framed me up to say i solicited prostitutes. simon says he was accused of being a british spy, then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair. ..seen here in videos from chinese social media. when simon was released, he fled to the uk and has now been granted asylum. in london, he set up an organisation to help others who ve left hong kong. today, his house is on a special police protection register and he s constantly looking
then you really need to understand what it is the chinese government does in terms of surveillance in its own country, against its own population. panorama can now show how security issues in some hikvision and dahua cameras can be exploited. ipvm is one of the world s leading authorities on surveillance technology. working with the bbc, they designed a series of tests. first, ipvm supplied a hikvision camera to put inside broadcasting house. we have a camera installed in a bbc studio in london, and we are going to hack it remotely using a back door that hikvision built into its own products. panorama couldn t install the camera on a bbc network for security reasons, so it was put on a test network with no firewall and little protection. as a one off experiment,
hikvision and dahua cameras can also be found up and down the uk. we spent months and months submitting thousands of freedom of information requests, and we found that the majority of public bodies are using chinese state owned surveillance cameras. these companies have dominated, completely dominated, the surveillance market in the uk. nobody knows how many hikvision and dahua cameras are in the uk, but big brother watch says 227 councils and 15 police forces use hikvision and 35 councils use dahua. you re talking about data on millions and millions of people that could be processed to potentially generate very detailed reports about each of us and what we do. and if that sounds hyperbolic,