Enrolled to study outside Xinjiang, Uyghur students are subjected to intense indoctrination and “hanification,” intended to veer them from their religion and culture.
The Price of Studies in Inland China for Uyghur Youth
Central Government Inspections Prompt Assaults on Believers
Before the second round of religious work review in Shandong Province, local authorities intensified crackdowns on religious venues and groups of all denominations.
Nazi-Style CCP Book Burning Targets Religious Books
Images of books removed from libraries in China and publicly burned evoke disturbing reminiscences of the Nazi campaign of 1933.
CCP Uses Believers’ Donations to Indoctrinate Them
The regime tightens control over finances of state-approved churches, as a tool to limit religious activities to the minimum and ultimately take over them entirely.
Testimonies
CCP Officials: All House Churches Must Be Eliminated
Refusing to be controlled by the government, house churches are deemed illegal and are suppressed in the name of eliminating “gangs and evil forces.”
‘Give Back Our Venue,’ Plead Members of a Destroyed Church
Gathered on the ruins of their church, believers pray and ask the state to respect religious freedom. Not many can dare even such small acts of defiance in China.
CCP Shows No Mercy to the Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
Despite pleas by local Buddhists, a 17-meter-tall statue of Guanyin in Hebei Province was demolished, joining the long list of China’s shattered religious icons.
The Temple Demolition Campaign Devastates Devotees
Ignoring pleas from believers and threatening to suppress them, the Chinese regime wantonly destroys Buddhist and Taoist temples, loots their assets.
Op-eds
Hong Kong, The Day After: Voices from the Field
The anti-CCP camp triumphed in the elections. But the real turning point, local experts explain, will come in September 2020, when voters will choose the new Legislative Council.
The Perils of The Church of Almighty God – 2
A British researcher meets with refugees who escaped China and now live in England (second in a series of two articles).
Interviews
Chinese Ethnic Kazakh Refugees in Kazakhstan: A New Dramatic Case
Two ethnic Kazakhs escaped detention and torture in China and entered Kazakhstan, but they risk being sent back there, says their lawyer Lyazzat Akhatova
From Tiananmen to Hong Kong: “The CCP is incorrigible,” Says Lee Cheuk-yan
A survivor of the Tiananmen massacre, former well-known Hong Kong politician, and now human rights activist, Mr. Lee tells Bitter Winter that Honk Kong’s fight for democracy is just as crucial for the West.
Featured
Bitter Winter Feature Series for Human Rights Day (IV): The CCP’s Continuing Violation of All Human Rights
December 10 was Human Rights Day. Bitter Winter celebrates it with four articles. Here, we address issues other than religious liberty.
Documents
Members of Lithuanian Parliament to Xi Jinping: Stop Persecuting Uyghurs, Tibetans, The Church of Almighty God, Falun Gong
In a letter of December 10, 29 MPs and one member of the European Parliament from Lithuania write to the Chinese President denouncing the repression of all religions
China’s systematic sabotage of the UN’s Human Rights Council
The author delivered the following speech on November 14 at the Geneva Forum 2019 on human rights, organized by the Department of Information & International Relations of the Geneva Office of Tibet of the Central Tibetan Administration under the title China’s High-Tech Repression and Freedom of Religion.
The Repression of Uyghurs and Other Muslim Minorities in China
The text of Ms. Sawut’s speech at the June 20, 2019, conference in Seoul, The Long Arm of the Dragon, co-organized by Bitter Winter.
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