Xin Shoudao from Henan Province has been left impoverished after paying hefty amounts in fines in the past one year to the Chinese government. Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government has resorted to various methods of torture and persecution of...
Arrested by the police, a member of The Church of Almighty God, managed to escape, forcing authorities to start a manhunt, promising local population financial rewards for tip-offs. Kang Min (pseudonym) is a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian...
The Chinese police practice “soft” torture violence, aiming at destroying person’s spirit by using psychological pressure instead of physical force. Since the beginning of April, the Jiangsu provincial police launched a unified operation aimed at The Church of...
Authorities forcibly took away Islamic-style architectural symbols from the rooftops of residential buildings in the city of Yinchuan. According to informed sources, in late-March 2018, several cranes were driven into the Luhuazhou community of the Xixia district in...
The Catholic Henan Regional Seminary is an essential part of the province’s religious and cultural heritage; authorities recently forcibly demolished the entrance to the seminary. Bitter Winter has recently learned that at 6 a.m. on April 27, 2018, claiming the...
The idea of human rights is founded on the principle of natural rights. But official Chinese human rights principles state that human rights are rights given by society to the individual. by Aaron Rhodes This text was presented as a speech at the seminar Freedom of...
Bitter Winter continues to receive witness accounts about the arrest of more than 700 members of The Church of Almighty God on June 26-28 in Liaoning Province. Bitter Winter reported earlier that the Chinese Communist Party authorities’ massive crackdown on The Church...
A couple who are both members of The Church of Almighty God were arrested for their belief and tortured with drugs, among other methods. In 1986, China signed the United Nations Convention Against Torture, also known as UNCAT. It was ratified two years later in 1988,...
An internal Communist Party document reveals a year-long campaign against The Church of Almighty God in Shanxi. Bitter Winter obtained an internal document of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government exposing a year-long campaign to crack down on The Church of...
Two house church pastors were apprehended while preaching in Xinjiang; a colleague tries to secure their release but is arrested and tortured herself. In December 2017, two pastors from a house church in Songyuan city, Jilin, were arrested while preaching in Huocheng...