The woman resisted years of deprogramming, and from 2000 on has spent most of her time in jail.
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Zhanargul Zhumatai: “Help Me, I Just Want to Leave China”
The ethnic Kazakh dissident tells Bitter Winter she continues to be embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the authorities as she waits under virtual house arrest in Urumqi.
Seoul Sungrak Church: One of the World’s Largest Baptist Churches Banned as a “Cult” in China
China’s desire to please Korean anti-cultists, with whom it regularly cooperates, may have been a factor in the decision.
Zero COVID: Chinese Propaganda Tries to Rewrite History
The Party claims it had decided to abandon the policy on November 10, before the Urumqi Fire and the protests. This is false.
COVID-19 Origins: 43 Top Security Experts Slam Media for Censoring the Laboratory Hypothesis
The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and a former National Security Advisor are among those claiming that “The Lancet,” “The New York Times” and others willingly downplayed the Wuhan lab theory.
Less Apps on Chinese Smartphones from January 1, 2023
A new regulation limits the number of pre-installed Apps phones can be sold with, and makes it more difficult to download new ones. The aim, as usual, is more surveillance.
Detained leaders of Church of Abundance Accused of “Violating National Security”
A new charge hits the Christians from Xi’an, who have been detained for more than 140 days.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: A Dramatic Interview with an Ethnic Kazakh Camp Survivor Who May Soon “Disappear”
Bitter Winter interviewed the 43-year-old artist in Urumqi, where the police is threatening to take her to a psychiatric hospital.
USCIRF Charges China’s Authorized Religious Bodies as Communist Party Accomplices
A new report exposes the five authorized religions’ “complicity in the government’s systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.”
Zhao Weikai: Russian-Style Jail Sentence for “Extremism”
Inspired by Putin’s crackdown on “illegal” religion, Chinese authorities now claim that pastors they do not like are guilty of “extremism.”