A report released by the banned movement offers horrific details of the continuing persecution.
96 Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted to Death in 2019
Crackdown on Ethnic Kazakhs Continues in Xinjiang
The story of two families, which were persecuted and destroyed for the sole crime of maintaining their Kazakh identity.
Lawyers Told They Cannot Claim Xie Jiao Members Are Innocent
The CCP has a list of banned religious groups. Now, it is telling lawyers they cannot argue in court their accused members are not guilty – or else.
The Dangers of Religious Social Networking in China
Believers not only face the risk of arrest for gathering in unlicensed places of worship – even joining a religion-affiliated group online may lead to persecution.
Testimonies
Believers Tortured in Prisons to Make Them Renounce Their Faith
Members of religious groups designated as “evil cults” by China’s regime are being “transformed” through indoctrination while they serve their sentences.
House Churches Pushed to the Brink of Extinction
CCP uses many bullying methods to force unregistered believers to join the official Three-Self Church: from direct threats to extorting landlords who rent to them.
CCP’s Anti- Xie Jiao Propaganda Ruins Families
Manipulated and lied to by the government, relatives of believers from banned religious groups are forced to mistreat their loved ones to save themselves.
Three-Self Church Believers Indoctrinated to Become Atheists
As China’s state-run Protestant Church is being turned into a tool to spread CCP’s ideology, its congregations are forced to study Marxist texts and accept atheism.
Op-eds
Wu Huayan: Dying of Hunger in a China “Without Poverty”
Xi Jinping claimed poverty would disappear by 2020. Here is 2020, and here is a young student who died of malnutrition.
Opinion: What China Does Is Cultural Genocide
The West loses dignity turning a blind eye to Beijing’s Orwellian human rights abuse.
Interviews
Demolishing Graveyards in Xinjiang: Even Dead Uyghurs Are Now Persecuted
After CNN revealed the CCP’s destruction of Uyghur cemeteries, Chinese propaganda claimed these were just fake news. Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun tells us the true story.
Missing Uyghurs Do Not Reappear: The Case of the Hamdullah Family
The CCP campaigns claiming that the Uyghurs who disappeared are now safely home is a lie, as proved by the case of two prominent Uyghur businessmen and their relatives.
Featured
How Xi Jinping Became God
The Chinese President, like Chairman Mao before him, is trying to propose himself as an object of worship worthier than god. Bitter Winter has selected some typical reports about this bizarre, yet worrying development.
Documents
English Translation of the 2019 Administrative Measures for Religious Groups
Bitter Winter offers the first complete English translation of these new provisions, coming into force on February 1, 20202. As we commented, they make the situation of religion in China from bad to worse.
An Urgent Appeal: Stop Police Brutality in Hong Kong
40 parliamentarians and dignitaries from 18 countries write to Carrie Lam
Members of Lithuanian and European Parliament to Kazakhstan: Do Not Deport Refugees Back to China
Bitter Winter reported on the case of two ethnic Kazakhs who escaped the transformation through education camps. Some brave European politicians, led by Lithuanian MP Mantas Adomėnas, now speak up in their favor.
Footer
Download the BITTER WINTER APP now!
LINKS
Breaking News
No breaking news found!
By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. more information
The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.