A South Korean-sponsored Christian house church in Heilongjiang's Hegang city was closed down after a raid by the police. On June 17, 2018, more than 100 police officers broke through three gates guarded by believers to raid the meeting place of a South Korean house...
People are increasingly terrified of the authorities as arrests of Chinese Muslims become more frequent and random. Bitter Winter has received reports from all over Xinjiang that detail the various reasons for which people got picked up by the police for their...
The “ten household joint defense” policy is rapidly spreading across Xinjiang and terrifying both the minorities and Han Chinese people. Recently, Bitter Winter reported about the “ten household joint defense,” which has been instituted in several regions of Xinjiang....
A woman of Christian faith was driven to suicide due to harassment faced by constant surveillance by authorities. In December 2013, the Chinese Communist Party officially declared that it was ending its “re-education through labor” system. However, ever since then,...
In an incident from Anhui, the police disrupted a house church gathering by firing warning shots. In November 2014, a gathering was underway at a house church in Anhui’s Hefei city when police officials stormed inside. To intimidate those present, the police...
Local authorities in Anhui’s Dangshan county stop the protests against the demolition of a 100-year -old church by promising the congregation to build a new place of worship and compensate them financially. The promise has never been kept.
A member of the Shouters’ movement from Henan Province who had been in exile for more than 20 years was captured by the Chinese authorities and later received a lengthy prison sentence. He Jie (pseudonym) from Yongcheng city, Henan Province, had been on the run after...
A district court in Bengbu city, Anhui Province fined and sentenced 24 members of The Church of Almighty God to varying terms in prison for heterodox teachings. On July 26, 2018, The Yuhui District Court in Anhui’s Bengbu city sentenced to time in prison and fined 24...
A house church in Changsha city, Hunan Province was shut down and over 2,000 books, including copies of the Bible, were confiscated and burned by Chinese authorities. On the morning of July 14, 2018, Wen Yu (pseudonym), the leader of a house church in Changsha, a...
A female officer in Xinjiang is forced to take part in the program of forced indoctrination of Uyghur Muslims and is not allowed to resign. In December last year, the Xinjiang government introduced its ‘two full coverages’ policy. It stipulates that a Party cadre or a...