Local government in Xinjiang is pitting the Han Chinese residents against their Muslim neighbors to achieve “social stability.” Bitter Winter recently spoke to residents in Xinjiang regarding new government policy, known as “ten household joint defense.” In April,...
Bitter Winter has received more testimonies from persecuted local Muslims in Xinjiang Province. In March 2018, Wan Ming, a devout Hui Muslim from Anjihai town of Shawan county, was taken away along with his son by the police for his faith. His younger brother Wan...
Local authorities in Xinjiang’s Manas county arrested four people after a villager reported about their whereabouts. In late March, a man ventured into a village to run some errands. A villager identified him as being the son of a local house church leader, Liu Zhang...
The CCP authorities detained a number of imams last year and continue to hold them for no reason. An imam is an honorific title in Islam given to a person who is the head of a mosque. It is a role equivalent to that of a priest in charge of a church in Christianity or...
A mother and son in Xinjiang Province were forcibly detained because of their belief and after they had applied for passports; they remain unaccounted for to date. A close friend of the arrested recently recounted to Bitter Winter about the arrest and disappearance of...
The CCP authorities continue taking down Islamic symbols from mosques and other buildings in China’s Xinjiang region. The crescent moon and star, commonly recognized as the symbol of the Islamic faith, is disappearing from both secular and religious buildings in...
The building, constructed as a regular prison, will have extensive secret facilities and is planned to accommodate at least 10,000 inmates. According to informed sources, the municipal government of Karamay, Xinjiang has put other construction projects on hold to...
It took 14 days for the Chinese government to destroy a large Hui mosque in Manas county of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang. A resident of Manas county has reported to Bitter Winter how she witnessed the demolition of a large mosque at the beginning...
The local authorities lock up people in “education” camps even for speaking the Uyghur language. Bitter Winter recently interviewed Shihezi resident Zhang Hui whose relatives, including his two brothers, were all arrested and places in a “transformation through...
A Bitter Winter reporter has managed to talk to a detainee in one of the “transformation through education camps” for local Muslims in Xinjiang, where over 1,200 men and women are held. The “transformation through education camp” is in a three-story building...