A new regulation confines mention of religion on any Internet platform to a few government-controlled organizations that will receive a special license for very limited Web activity.
The speeches of Massimo Introvigne, Willy Fautré, and Rosita Šorytė at the 2018 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, September 13, 2018
To further its “sinicization” policy, the Chinese authorities have been ordering religious institutions to raise the Chinese flag and sing the national anthem.
Officials in Shanghai have targeted repeatedly a church, established by a Filipino national, seeking to dismantle it.
Not only local Muslims are persecuted in Xinjiang Province – authorities have set their eyes on Christians who are increasingly put under strict monitoring.
A member of a house church in Tonghua county, Jilin Province, was arrested twice for his belief in God. He remains in custody after his second arrest.
The Chinese authorities continue to employ the same methods against religious movements as used to fight organized crime.
A total of 300 personnel were dispatched to demolish the shrine in Henan on the eve of China’s grandest festival.
Public officials in China are disrupting events of religious nature, following the implementation of the newly revised Religious Affairs Regulations.
Three speakers at the yearly Human Rights Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ask OSCE participating States to grant asylum to religion-based refugees fleeing China.