Reported Issues Involving Civic Space

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Reported incidents involving the space for civic action — restrictions, arrests, shutdowns, dispersals, press-freedom events. Surfaced from the open record by an AI agent swarm, deduplicated across sources, and published at Silver tier with full provenance.

What this dataset is

A daily-refreshed dataset of reported incidents involving the space for civic action: legal restrictions on assembly, arrests of activists and journalists, internet shutdowns, protest dispersals, NGO de-registrations, and press-freedom events. Global coverage; the schema is the same wherever the incident occurred.

An AI agent swarm reads the open record around the clock, extracts each candidate claim against a fixed schema, and only publishes an event once the Silver gate is satisfied — at least three independent sources and a corroboration confidence above 0.7. Bronze-only signals are kept internally for review but never reach the catalog.

Every Silver record carries the chain-of-custody attributes the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations expects: original source URLs, capture timestamps, content hashes, the raw extraction payload, and full edit history. Djeed delivers Silver — the verification + ethical-review steps that turn it into admissible Gold happen inside your workflow.

Example: a claim, structured

“Authorities ordered the shutdown of two independent newspapers and arrested three reporters covering the protests.”

Becomes a structured Silver record:

event_type:
Press-freedom incident
sub_type:
Outlet shutdown + journalist arrest
act_category_level_1:
03 Deprivation of liberty
act_category_level_2:
03.02 Arbitrary arrest of media worker
location:
Country X · Region Y · ADM1 code
target:
2 outlets · 3 journalists (named)
actor:
State authorities · Ministry of Information
actor_role:
Perpetrator (state actor)
target_role:
Victim (media worker · outlet)
evidence:
News (3 outlets) + NGO statement
corroboration_count:
4 independent sources
confidence:
0.86
sources:
[3 news URLs + 1 NGO release URL]

The full per-record property set unlocks with a subscription. Free-tier callers get the main fields shown above plus the geometry needed for the map and graph views.

Source mix at Silver

The Silver gate requires corroboration across independent source categories — multiple outlets in one category don't alone clear the bar.

  • International + regional news — Multilingual outlet coverage with article-level URL citation. Every claim ties back to the paragraph that produced it.
  • Civil-society + accountability NGOs — Public statements and bulletins from human-rights networks tracking civic-space conditions in country.
  • Government + ministry releases — Official decrees, registrations, dissolutions, and court rulings affecting civic actors — cited in primary form.
  • Court filings + public judgments — Public-record filings from national and international courts — used to anchor charges, sentences, and outcomes.
  • Verified social-media reporting — Posts by named journalists, monitors, and witnesses where the source can be traced and re-checked.

How a record reaches Silver

A new claim arrives at Bronze the moment the swarm extracts it from a single source. It stays at Bronze until at least two more independent sources back it within the spatial-temporal corroboration window (same event, same place, within a few days). When the cluster's combined confidence crosses 0.7, the claims are merged into one Silver event — entity names are reconciled, locations are reverse-geocoded to administrative units, and an H3 hex cell is assigned so the event can be spatially blocked against future arrivals.

Berkeley Protocol alignment

Four criteria the Protocol expects, four ways this dataset satisfies them. Full mapping of all ten criteria is on the methodology page.

Berkeley criterion

Identification + Authentication

Original URL, capture timestamp, and content hash travel with every record — even if the upstream page goes 404.

Berkeley criterion

Reliability via corroboration

Silver gate: ≥ 3 independent sources AND corroboration confidence ≥ 0.7. Single-source claims never reach the catalog.

Berkeley criterion

Chain of custody

Every value change, dedup merge, and tier promotion is logged; the full edit history is queryable.

Berkeley criterion

Verifiability

Raw extraction payload preserved per record so a disputed value can be re-checked against the original page.

Per-record fields at Silver

  • · event_id · stable identifier (UUID)
  • · incident_title · model-generated headline
  • · incident_summary · 2–4 sentence neutral summary
  • · event_date + date_precision (day / week / month)
  • · country_iso3code · adm1_code · adm2_code · h3 cell (resolution 7)
  • · act_category_level_1 / level_2 (severity-ordered taxonomy)
  • · act_brief_summary · what the actor did, in one sentence
  • · actor + actor_role (perpetrator · state / non-state)
  • · target + target_role (victim · individual / outlet / organisation)
  • · scope_estimate (number affected) + estimate_precision band
  • · source_urls (array) + capture_timestamps + content_hashes
  • · corroboration_count + confidence_score (0–1)
  • · tier (Bronze / Silver) + edit_history (full provenance trail)

Free-tier sees a curated subset of these fields in the inspector panel. The full schema (every field above, plus the raw extraction payload) is subscription-only.