{
  "id": "2025-yangon-vip-visit-jamming",
  "title": "Yangon Region jamming during junta-official visits, December 2025",
  "class": "regional",
  "type": "throttle",
  "status": "unresolved",
  "date_start": "2025-12-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "resolution_note": "No source gives an end date for either incident. Stale-ongoing review (M2 patch, 2026-07): both are VIP-visit-triggered jamming/cutoffs, inherently bounded in nature (jamming tied to a specific visit ends when the visit ends) and structurally unlike the region's other, conflict-driven, open-ended blackouts. Reclassified from ongoing to unresolved — the narrative's own prior text already said as much (\"status is left as ongoing/unresolved\") but the schema didn't yet have a way to express that distinction before this patch.\n",
  "scope": {
    "regions": [
      "Yangon"
    ],
    "townships": [
      "Mingaladon",
      "North Okkalapa",
      "Thanlyin"
    ],
    "asns": [],
    "operators": []
  },
  "confidence": "verified_ground",
  "detection_sequence": [
    {
      "layer": "stop",
      "at": "2025-12-15T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Access Now STOP record: jamming devices used by the military council in wards of Mingaladon and North Okkalapa townships during a deputy junta chief visit to a military nursing graduation ceremony.",
      "signal_ids": []
    },
    {
      "layer": "stop",
      "at": "2025-12-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Access Now STOP record: internet and phone lines cut in Thanlyin township ahead of a visit by the junta leader.",
      "signal_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "verified_by": [
    "access_now"
  ],
  "narrative": "DRAFT — needs an editor rewrite. Two STOP records grouped as one pattern: both are short, localized jamming/cutoff incidents timed to specific military-official visits rather than conflict-driven blackouts, distinct in character from the Sagaing/Rakhine/Bago events. Neither STOP record gives an end date (both \"Unknown\" status) — these were likely brief, hours-long disruptions in practice, but nothing in the source confirms that. Duration question closed (maintainer research, 2026-07): confirmed Access Now/STOP is the only source covering either incident — no further duration or end-time confirmation exists to look for. resolution_note's existing \"unresolved, plausibly brief\" treatment stands as final, not as a gap awaiting more research.\n",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Access Now STOP Dataset records",
      "url": "https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton/"
    }
  ],
  "data_links": {
    "csv": "/data/events/2025-yangon-vip-visit-jamming.csv",
    "json": "/data/events/2025-yangon-vip-visit-jamming.json"
  },
  "technical_corroboration": {
    "layer": "ioda",
    "last_checked": "2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z",
    "result": "recovered_to_baseline"
  }
}