On United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we should not forget the agony of silence for exiled Uyghurs waiting for news of loved ones at home.
Testimonies China
CCP Hijacks the Label “Humanistic Buddhism,” Calls for Marxist Interpretation of Buddhist Classics
The 2024 Buddhist Lecture Exchange Conference, with the mandatory references to the Third Plenum, explained what “further Sinicizing Chinese Buddhism” means.
Bodhi Gong Believers Sentenced in Inner Mongolia
The Qigong group, which the authorities failed to eradicate, continues to be active and persecuted in several provinces.
Internet “Miao Shaman” Detained in Guizhou, China
Master Yang (“Miao Sheng”) had become a web celebrity by proposing “Miao witchcraft” through social media. The authorities were not amused.
Falun Gong, 400+ Practitioners Sentenced in China in the First Half of 2024
While the movement commemorates 25 years of persecution, a merciless repression continues.
The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”
29 of her relatives are detained, disappeared, dead, or still serving lengthy prison sentences. She tells her—and their—story to “Bitter Winter.”
The “Ink Girl” Six Years After: Is She Alive or Dead?
Dong Yaoqiong sprayed with ink a portrait of Xi Jinping on July 4, 2018, and was taken to a psychiatric hospital. Her friends ask the CCP to prove she is still alive.
Hong Kong: Pro-Democracy Singer Denise Ho Harassed Again
She is no longer able to book any public performance venue. A live-streamed concert in a private one was interrupted by the police citing the Noise Control Ordinance.
China’s Pro-Government Muslims Launch “Three Loves” Campaign
Love is important in Islam, but what is now preached is “love for the Motherland, Socialism, and the Chinese Communist Party.”
A Uyghur Tale: A Story of Apricot Trees
For an exiled poet, an apricot tree in London is a way of remembering his father and his youth in East Turkestan (Ch. Xinjiang).