In acts that remind of the Cultural Revolution era style policing, the Chinese Communist authorities have intensified their attack on Islam. “Halal” is a term that is usually applied to food and drinks and defines what is permissible or traditional as per Islamic...
An inside source revealed to Bitter Winter how officers from Ulan-Usu town of Shawan county use false pretexts to lure Muslims into the police station, later locking them up in a local “transformation through education” camp. One evening at the end of March this year,...
Seven out of eight mosques in one of the areas of Lianmuqin town in Xinjiang have been demolished; the remaining one is strictly supervised. According to a local source, seven of the eight mosques in the Shanshan county’s 11th Brigade of Lianmuqin town, have already...
A 76-year-old bed-ridden Muslim has been sent for “transformation through education” after one of his grandchildren has been detained. Ma Weijun (pseudonym), a Hui Muslim from Wusu city, Xinjiang Province, is entirely incapable of taking care of himself because he is...
An Uyghur couple, both with medical problems, from Kumul city in Xinjiang, were arrested and detained in “transformation through education camps,” leaving their three children behind. Bitter Winter interviewed one of them. On June 18, 2018, the police arrested Guli, a...
The Chinese government expands the network of “transformation through education camps” in Xinjiang. Bitter Winter has obtained videos and photos showing the outside of these facilities. Bitter Winter reported in July that the Chinese Communist Party had repurposed the...
In an exclusive interview, a teacher in Xinjiang talks about life as a government cadre in the “home-stay” program. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, a massive “home-stay” program is being implemented in Xinjiang since the beginning of this year, with over one...
In just one month, 13 of the 14 mosques in Bashisihu township of Wusu city in Xinjiang were demolished by authorities, and the one that remains is already entirely under the Chinese Communist Party’s control. A source informed Bitter Winter that in the Bashisihu...
An Uyghur couple from Xinjiang under government-sanctioned persecution. The local police in Shanshan County detained an Uyghur man in May this year. His wife, Ms. Gulnur (pseudonym) says his crime was reading Quran with an imam for a month thirty years ago. As per the...
Schools and other state-owned buildings in Wusu city, Xinjiang, are being converted into “transformation through education” camps for Uyghur Muslims. According to an informed source, a Party school in Wusu has recently been turned into a “transformation through...