{"id":116,"date":"2023-08-17T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T00:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2023-08-17T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T00:08:15","slug":"what-night-time-lighting-tells-us-about-tibets-prisons-and-detention-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/what-night-time-lighting-tells-us-about-tibets-prisons-and-detention-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"What night-time lighting tells us about Tibet&#8217;s prisons and detention centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-03-at-5.33.22-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-03-at-5.33.22-PM-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-03-at-5.33.22-PM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-03-at-5.33.22-PM-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-03-at-5.33.22-PM-800x501.png 800w, https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-03-at-5.33.22-PM.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities in Tibet are engaging in preventive repression towards their population.<\/strong><br \/>\nAs part of their nationwide &#8216;stability maintenance&#8217; strategy, they are detaining, persecuting and convicting Tibetans for non-violent forms of protest and other expressions of dissent such as assisting or supporting self-immolations and carrying pictures of the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We found that there are currently at least 79 prisons and detention centres throughout Tibet, with most towns and villages having a detention centre.<\/strong><br \/>\nWe began with a publicly available dataset of 83 known detention facilities from the Tibet Research Project (TRP). Using historical satellite imagery of these locations, we developed a coding scheme to classify these facilities by level of securitisation and purpose. We also excluded facilities that did not fit neatly into the mould of a prison or detention centre, leaving 79 known prisons or detention centres for analysis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_briefs\/RBA2474-1.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_briefs\/RBA2474-1.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/content\/dam\/rand\/pubs\/research_briefs\/RBA2400\/RBA2474-1\/RAND_RBA2474-1.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Tibet are engaging in preventive repression towards their population. As part of their nationwide &#8216;stability maintenance&#8217; strategy, they are detaining, persecuting and convicting Tibetans for non-violent forms of protest and other expressions of dissent such as assisting or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/what-night-time-lighting-tells-us-about-tibets-prisons-and-detention-centres\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-dignity","category-human-rights","category-tibet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}