Brother Zhang Wenbo tells Bitter Winter how he was suspended on a rope, beaten with a steel tube, and burned with cigarettes. His only crime? Preaching a banned religion.
Interviews
Demolishing Graveyards in Xinjiang: Even Dead Uyghurs Are Now Persecuted
After CNN revealed the CCP’s destruction of Uyghur cemeteries, Chinese propaganda claimed these were just fake news. Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun tells us the true story.
Missing Uyghurs Do Not Reappear: The Case of the Hamdullah Family
The CCP campaigns claiming that the Uyghurs who disappeared are now safely home is a lie, as proved by the case of two prominent Uyghur businessmen and their relatives.
Chinese Ethnic Kazakh Refugees in Kazakhstan: A New Dramatic Case
Two ethnic Kazakhs escaped detention and torture in China and entered Kazakhstan, but they risk being sent back there, says their lawyer Lyazzat Akhatova
From Tiananmen to Hong Kong: “The CCP is incorrigible,” Says Lee Cheuk-yan
A survivor of the Tiananmen massacre, former well-known Hong Kong politician, and now human rights activist, Mr. Lee tells Bitter Winter that Honk Kong’s fight for democracy is just as crucial for the West.
“La Cina è vicina”: Chinese Police Roaming the Streets of Italy
Is China keeping its citizens in Italy, both tourists and asylum seekers, under watch? A chat between Bitter Winter and Alessandra Bocchi, a young journalist with a long experience of all matters Chinese.
Is the West Finally Ready to Support Hong Kong?
The US Senate and the UK Foreign Office criticize the CCP. Bitter Winter interviews John Patterson (HK Watch) and Edward Chin (2047 HK Monitor).
“The Xinjiang Papers”: Either Turning or Returning Point
Two Uyghur leaders comment on the scoop by The New York Times. Will this change the world’s attitude toward China’s crimes, or everything will remain as it is?
Something Is Rotten in the State of Saudis: Non-Muslim Chinese Allowed Into Mecca
Uyghur refugee Tahir Imim reveals to Bitter Winter a major Muslim scandal—and evidence of the pervasive CCP influence on Arab countries
Miracle in Istanbul: A Uyghur School in the Turkish Exile
An interview with Lokman Hira’i, a self-taught teacher who keeps alive Uyghur language and culture among refugee children and teenagers in Istanbul.