A lawsuit accusing California tech giant Cisco of facilitating the Chinese regime’s violent persecution of Falun Gong can now move forward to trial, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 7.
Adherents of Falun Gong, a faith group heavily persecuted in China since 1999, filed a lawsuit in 2011 against Cisco along with its two former executives, longtime CEO John Chambers and Fredy Cheung, Cisco’s then-vice president for greater China. The San Jose-headquartered firm, the lawsuit alleges, supplied technology to help China’s communist officials build a vast surveillance network to identify and track Falun Gong practitioners, and facilitate their subsequent arrest and torture….