Chinese authorities have continued to monitor an elderly Christian man after his torture. In September last year, police picked up Zhang Qunyou (pseudonym) and seven other Christians from a religious gathering. Mr. Zhang was initially released on the same day....
Muslims in Xinjiang are being forced to participate in drills that involve marching in considerable numbers to endorse the Chinese Communist Party. In July, more than 400 Muslims in a Xinjiang village marched towards a mosque and yelled, “we will support the Communist...
A religious book found by the police in the home of a Christian has led to the successive arrests and detentions of multiple believers. In July 2017, officers from the Sanyuan town of Lu’an city, Anhui Province barged into the home of Zhang Chuancai, a member of the...
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,...
The authorities in Henan have been harassing a Christian couple even after releasing them from their detention more than a year ago. In December 2016, after someone reported them anonymously, five police officers took Lu Ming (pseudonym) and his wife into detention...
Local booksellers in Zhejiang were taken into detention for selling books on religion. In May 2018, the authorities sent in more than ten police officers to arrest a bookseller in Zhejiang’s Taizhou city. Qiao Qin (pseudonym) was charged with the crime of running...
A government-approved Protestant church in Henan was shut down earlier this year on the grounds of its proximity to a school. On April 30, the local government of Mangshan town in Henan’s Yongcheng city shut down a church that is affiliated with the Protestant...
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...
As part of the recent crackdown on religion, one of the top CCP officials visited Tibet and demanded absolute loyalty from monks—or else Wang Yang, regarded as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s fourth highest ranking official, visited Tibet on August 26 and 27, and...
The Belgian NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers reports on 20 cases of extra-judicial killing of members of The Church of Almighty Good in China On 29 April 1997, Xie Yongjiang learned that one of his friends had been arrested for preaching. Fearing that his friend’s...