SAN FRANCISCO - Falun Gong members continue Cisco Systems to custom-building used by China to trace the followers of the spiritual movement of the technology of the Internet "Golden Shield".
Cisco has dismissed the case Monday as being without foundation and is committed to "vigorously defend" itself.
A trial commenced in US Federal Court appeals of city of San Jose in California from the North for the giant computer gear to pay damages and stop to help China find Falun Gong supporters of networking.
Cisco "designed, supplied and helped to maintain a network of surveillance and censorship known as Golden Shield" used by Chinese officials to identify Falungong practitioners who have been arrested, tortured and sometimes killed, a lawyer for the group said in court documents filed last week.
"Cisco operates not networks in China or elsewhere, nor is Cisco customize our products to facilitate censorship or repression," the California firm told AFP.
"Cisco built equipment to global standards to facilitate the free exchange of information, and we sell the same equipment in China, we sell in other countries around the world in strict compliance with government regulations."
Cisco has established a subsidiary of China Network Technology Corp. in Beijing in 1998 who went to work on the Golden Shield, known internally as "policenet", according to the combination.
"Specific intent to cisco to meet the requirements of the objective of the Chinese Communist Party to identify, track and thus abuse and eliminate Falun Gong practitioners... expressed in the marketing of presentations," court papers of load.
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