This cruel torture method that leads to severe physical and psychological damage is often used to interrogate religious believers in China. The Chinese government signed the United Nations Convention against Torture in 1986 but has never complied with it. Law...
The authorities illegally closed a Catholic establishment two years prior to its lease expiration. In December 2015, officers from the Chengtou police station in Fuqing city charged into a Catholic oratory and ordered the believers to move out. When they persisted,...
A Christian man who was arrested and became half immobile due to torture was forced to return to prison. In October 2015, officers from a local police station in Inner Mongolia’s Wulanhaote city arrested Wang Qiang for his Christian faith (pseudonym). He was sentenced...
Official authorities strictly monitor the thoughts and beliefs of students and staff. In March 2017, a university in Heilongjiang Province issued an “emergency plan” document that stated spreading religion at universities and colleges was strictly prohibited. That...
Harassed because of his religious activities and two trips to Taiwan, a house church leader was forced to hide from the authorities for years. The leader of a house church in Pandian town, Qihe county of Shandong Province, Jin Xin (pseudonym), has traveled to Taiwan...
In Shandong, authorities tried to stop believers from protesting a demolition by digging a ditch in front of the church. On June 20, government officials in Xigang town of Shandong attempted to demolish a state-sanctioned Protestant Three-Self Church. When the village...
A state-sanctioned Protestant church in Zhejiang Province has been harassed on many occasions, once the authorities sent 500 people to demolish its cross. In February 2016, local government officials came to the church and declared that they have an official document...
A husband of a member of The Church of Almighty God was told to divorce his wife if he wanted a Communist Party position in their village. Wang Gairong (pseudonym) from Yuzhou city, Henan Province, is a member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new...
The local authorities lock up people in “education” camps even for speaking the Uyghur language. Bitter Winter recently interviewed Shihezi resident Zhang Hui whose relatives, including his two brothers, were all arrested and places in a “transformation through...
Churches in Jilin’s Yushu city have been targeted increasingly by the Chinese authorities since the implementation of the new Regulations on Religious Affairs. Bitter Winter has received reports about government-approved Protestant Three-Self churches being demolished...