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...
A religious book found by the police in the home of a Christian has led to the successive arrests and detentions of multiple believers. In July 2017, officers from the Sanyuan town of Lu’an city, Anhui Province barged into the home of Zhang Chuancai, a member of the...
The authorities in Henan have been harassing a Christian couple even after releasing them from their detention more than a year ago. In December 2016, after someone reported them anonymously, five police officers took Lu Ming (pseudonym) and his wife into detention...
Local booksellers in Zhejiang were taken into detention for selling books on religion. In May 2018, the authorities sent in more than ten police officers to arrest a bookseller in Zhejiang’s Taizhou city. Qiao Qin (pseudonym) was charged with the crime of running...
A government-approved Protestant church in Henan was shut down earlier this year on the grounds of its proximity to a school. On April 30, the local government of Mangshan town in Henan’s Yongcheng city shut down a church that is affiliated with the Protestant...
Bitter Winter has received more testimonies from persecuted local Muslims in Xinjiang Province. In March 2018, Wan Ming, a devout Hui Muslim from Anjihai town of Shawan county, was taken away along with his son by the police for his faith. His younger brother Wan...