The authorities have issued orders that small gatherings of two to three believers are to be reported as well. Ever since the implementation of the revised Regulations on Religious Affairs in February, the Chinese authorities have intensified their assault on house...
Bitter Winter has received more testimonies about arrests and detention of people at “transformation through education” camps in China's Xinjiang Province. It is believed that the authorities in China recently detained over a million people, mostly Uyghurs and others...
Three members of a family from Yunnan who were arrested in 2016 and subjected to mental torture recount their experience. In October 2016, four police officers from the Chuxiong local station showed up at the home of Zhang Qian (pseudonym). Her house was raided, and...
Seven believers were arrested in Shanxi and have been through severe torture in the course of interrogation. In March 2015, seven Christians from a house church in Shanxi’s Xing county were traveling to Ordos city in Inner Mongolia. A local believer, who wanted to...
An institute that provided training and education in Arabic was recently shut down in Ningxia’s Wuzhong city. In April, the authorities showed up at the Zaoyuan Arabic Translation Training Base and Islamic Scripture Institute under the guise of checking the building’s...
Police arrested a Muslim Kazakh woman from Manas County in January. She continues to be held in custody to date. In January, four local police officers stormed into Ms. Nawal’s (pseudonym) home in Xinjiang’s Manas County. She had recently been diagnosed with cancer...
The shutdown of a Shandong church has left over 70 deaf Christians without a place to worship. In May, the Good New Church in Shandong’s Qingdao city received a notice from the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Religious Affairs and the Public Security Bureau that the...
A husband and wife, members of a house church, were reported and arrested for organizing a congregation meeting. In the morning of October 21, 2016, the public security bureau of a county in Chuxiong city, Yunnan Province dispatched three squad cars and over ten...
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...