The article series used satellite imagery to expose the camps.
June 14, 2021
Analysis of satellite imagery using Google Earth, Planet Labs, and the European Space Agency's Sentinel Hub found identified facilities at these locations as bearing the hallmarks of Chinese prisons and internment camps. Image courtesy of Mapbox and Buzzfeed.
A project funded in part by Brooklyn’s Eyebeam Art and Technology Center has won a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
“Built to Last,” a four-part investigative series on long-term incarceration and detention of the Uighur people, a Muslim minority, in the Xinjiang region of China, was published by Buzzfeed in 2020. It is a collaboration between reporter Megha Rajagopalan, architect Alison Killing, and Christo Buschek, a programmer and digital security trainer.