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.