In the province’s Zhaoyuan city, the authorities have brought back the infamous one-hundred-day campaign against “cults.”
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News
Xinjiang, the Ridiculous Defense of the Indefensible
According to the communist regime, the repressed Muslims are very happy to be repressed. And the real victim is the government, deceptively insulted by those who defend human rights.
China’s Religious Liberty Violations Denounced at the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review
Every five years, all countries should submit to a review of their human rights record by the United Nations. China’s review is November 6, next and the first report highlights its egregious violations of religious liberty.
Young, Persecuted Member of The Church of Almighty God Is Granted Asylum in US
18-year old Sister Danxiang Cheng was recognized as a refugee after a legal battle that lasted several months.
Testimonies
Imam Forced to Recite CCP Policies
An ethnic Hui Muslim, the imam, was picked up from his home in Xinjiang and taken to a “transformation through education” camp.
Over 30 House Churches Raided in Nanchang
Worshipers were forced to either completely close down their gathering places or start meeting in small groups after a sequence of crackdowns on house churches that adhere to head-covering tradition.
Wrongfully Implicated Family Suffers Persecution
A woman signed up for a Falun Gong pamphlet, and her grandson and daughter were punished severely ten years later.
Fujian Authorities Hired Thugs to Kill Farmer
Earlier this year, a farmer lost his life while fighting for his property and rights. His family never received justice or compensation.
Weekly Feature
Persecuted and Tortured: China vs The Church of Almighty God
The text of the testimony of Sister Guimei Jiang at the July 23, 2018 side event on China during the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom […]
Articles
Should We Use the G Word? Chinese Persecution and Genocide
International scholars start asking the question whether what China is doing to the Uyghurs, members of Falun Gong, and other groups, should be properly qualified as genocide
The African Inquisition: How CCP Censors News About Religious Persecution Abroad
An article in Foreign Policy lifts the veil on how China uses his economic influence to prevent foreign media from reporting about religious persecution.
Interviews
Anti-Refugees “Demonstrations” in South Korea: The Real Story
On September 2–4, 2018, Austrian journalist Peter Zoehrer was an eyewitness to false “spontaneous demonstrations” staged by the CCP and Korean anti-cultists against asylum seekers of The Church of Almighty God in Seoul. He tells the whole story to Bitter Winter.
“Uyghurs Are Forced to Denounce Their Faith to Survive”
Uyghur human rights scholar and activist Zubayra Shamseden tells Bitter Winter that CCP sees all Uyghur as enemies, is engaged in the largest detention of an ethnic group since World War II, and has now extended its repression to other Muslim minorities.
Documents
Ten NGOs Write to Xi Jinping: “Religious Persecution Should Cease”
An appeal to the Chinese President notes that the situation of religious liberty in China is worse than ever.
European Parliament Resolution of October 4, 2018 on Mass Arbitrary Detention of Uyghur and Khazak Muslims in Xinjiang
Mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and Kazakhs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
