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More Camps for Muslims (VIDEOS)

More Camps for Muslims (VIDEOS)

Another building has been discovered as a “transformation through education” camp in Xinjiang. As hundreds of Muslims of various ethnicities continue to be detained, Chinese authorities are working on creating more and more spaces to hold them. Bitter Winter has...

Another Camp for Muslims Discovered in Xinjiang

Another Camp for Muslims Discovered in Xinjiang

The authorities have implemented strict measures to disguise a camp as a vocational training center. In Xinjiang’s Akto county, which lies in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, there is a building complex in the Light Industrial Park area. While the authorities...

County Party Officials Order to Remove Crosses in Henan (VIDEO)

County Party Officials Order to Remove Crosses in Henan (VIDEO)

Thе Luoning County Communist Party Committee at an emergency meeting gave orders to remove crosses forcibly, even from state-sanctioned churches. On August 7, 2018, the Luoning County Party Committee in Henan’s Luoyang city held an emergency meeting, which resulted in...

Authorities Wipe Out Mosques in Shihezi City

Authorities Wipe Out Mosques in Shihezi City

Most mosques in this Xinjiang city had been demolished already, but now the remaining ones are being shut down as well. The residents of China’s western region of Xinjiang where almost half of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, have been going through increasingly...

Germany Has Deported Sister Zhao Back to China

Germany Has Deported Sister Zhao Back to China

Ignoring appeals by the Red Cross and several NGOs, Germany has forcibly deported Sister Zhao, a member of The Church of Almighty God, back to China on August 31. She is unaccounted for since. Bitter Winter has reported repeatedly on the case of Sister Zhao Xueliang,...