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European-based Siemens-Nokia monitoring Items Support govt human rights abuses throughout Bahrain
Spy tools and equipment promoted and controlled by Germany-based telecommunications and engineering corporate giants Siemens coupled with Nokia Siemens Networks are being utilized by law enforcement found in Bahrain to help with their interrogation combined with torture of human rights activists, reported by Bloomberg News.

The apparatus is employed by authorities presently there, and in other sorts of repressive regimes, to trace the area of activists due to his / her hand held phones not to mention keep track of their particular discussions and also sms messages, as reported by activists in addition to employees within NSN and Trovicor (a divested unit connected with NSN) which put in the actual devices in a variety of Middle Eastern countries.

Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar, a 39-year-old college supervisor and also activist, ended up being shown transcripts of his own sms messages by jailers who actually abused him with the help of plastic hoses and additionally made use of additional "enhanced" interrogation procedures throughout his imprisonment anywhere between Aug 2010 and Jan This year.

All of the units are now advertised and then mounted by Trovicor, an enterprise whose pursuits actually set about in 1993 as a unit connected with Siemens' voice- and data-recording section. In 2005, that unit grew to become a part of Nokia Siemens Networks, a shared endeavor involving Siemens as well as Finland-based Nokia Oyj. During Mar Last year, NSN ended up selling the unit, then referred to as Intelligence Solutions, to Perusa Partners Fund - in part just to successfully distance NSN from the suspect monitoring organization along with the potential that posed for human rights abuses. Perusa relabeled this company Trovicor, even so the technology and a lot of the workforce remained just like prior to a selling.

Trovicor's observing stations, that is equipped at telecomm firms or even at Internet service providers, have already been offered for sale to Egypt, Syria and Yemen, additionally Bahrain. In all, the device has a security role within at the least 12 Middle Eastern and additionally Upper African countries, Bloomberg news agency states.

In '09, NSN together with Trovicor came under fire once the Wall Street Journal said the fact that the gear was applied by Iranian agents to crack down on protesters taking part in demonstrations after the country's contested presidential elections. An NSN spokesman defended the transaction of the particular instruments to Iran during that time, indicating the business offered all of the technologies for “lawful recording" purposes, along the lines of beating terrorists, child pornography, narcotic selling and also other criminal actions.Mideast human rights violatoins helped by Nokia-Siemens technology

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