Despite facing persecution, the Beijing Zion Church has expanded to multiple provinces. Now, the authorities are intensifying their crackdown on all branches.
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Memtili Tewpiq: The Uyghur Teacher Who Was Burned to Death
A brave and crucial voice for Uyghur education, he became a target of warlord Sheng Shicai and his Soviet allies.
Shuiyuexing: Another UFO Religion Repressed as a Xie Jiao in China
Police are searching for members of a Taiwan-based mix of Scientology and UFO lore across the country.
The Cost of Silence: Reflections Three Years After the Xinjiang Police Files Leak
The Files should have generated robust policies against companies profiting from slave labour in the Uyghur region. In the UK, it did not happen.
Elderly Falun Gong Practitioner Dies in Jail for Lack of Proper Medical Care
Sentenced to four years, Wang Yan was taken to Liaoning Women’s Prison, where her breast cancer was not properly treated.
Securing the Invisible: Hidden Tech Threatens National Security
Seemingly inoffensive Chinese devices such as solar inverters and batteries may hide spying devices, a problem for security—and human rights.
Xi’an: Crackdown on Zion’s Light Church, Ten Pastors and Co-Workers Arrested
Pastor Gao Quanfu, who is among those detained, is a key leader in the house church movement in Shaanxi.
The Chinese Communist Party Insists: Marxism Is Compatible with Prosperity
Once again, Xi Jinping and the CCP have no patience with those who claim China’s economy and its proliferation of millionaires are not Marxist.
China: Religious Leaders Asked to Spread “Chinese Traditional” (in Fact, Communist) Culture
A week-long training confirmed that the “tradition” the United Front wants government-controlled religions to promote is simply the usual CCP ideology.
Hong Kong, Independent Media Targeted by Abusive Tax Audits
Repression through taxes is a time-honored strategy of totalitarian regimes. The Hong Kong Journalists Association protests.