Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe · ¶23

Plaintiffs in today’s case are practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious movement that originated in China in the 1990s. They contend that the Chinese Government persecuted them because of their religious beliefs, and that Cisco Systems, Inc. enabled that persecution by developing surveillance technology that allowed China to identify and apprehend them. By engaging in this conduct, plaintiffs say, Cisco and its executives aided and abetted violations of international law—namely, torture; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; forced labor; prolonged and arbitrary detention; crimes against humanity; extrajudicial killing; and forced disappearance. One plaintiff also seeks to hold two Cisco executives liable under the TVPA for aiding and abetting torture.

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