Fear of mass protests in China is leading to total surveillance, ideological control, and suppression of dissidents and human rights groups.
Human Rights
The Fate of Bitter Winter’s 45 Arrested Reporters
Great media coverage and two petitions to free them is an occasion to publicly share some details on their capture, detention and present state.
That Strange Shyness of the EU Towards China
A seminar of scholars and politicians in the European Parliament loses an excellent opportunity to put respect for human rights at the top of priorities.
US Congress’ Lantos Commission Adopts CAG’s Mo Xiufeng as Prisoner of Conscience
For the first time, a prisoner of The Church of Almighty God detained in China is “adopted” by the bipartisan Lantos Commission of the US Congress.
With the Wang Quanzhang Case CCP Hits the Bottom
The famous human rights lawyer who defended Falun Gong practitioners has been sentenced to 4,5 years in jail. Beijing arrogantly treads on the law again.
An “Ethical Tariff” on China to Defeat Silence and Tepidity
A major three-partisan conference on religious freedom in China held at the European Parliament urged international institutions to wake up in the face of CCP brutality.
A Tale of Two Rival Deities: God and the CCP
Mr. Marco Respinti, Director-in-Charge of Bitter Winter delivered a slightly shortened version of the following text during the seminar Freedom of Religion in China, organized at the European Parliament in Brussels by Mr. Bastiaan Belder, Dutch representative for the European Conservative and Reformists Group (ECR), Mr. Christian Dan Preda, Romanian representative for the European People’s Party (EPP), and Mr. Josef Weidenholser, Austrian representative for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
“Dozens of my In-Laws Vanished.” The Other 9/11 of Rushan Abbas
That very day her sister and aunt disappeared. It was six days after the renowned Uyghur activist denounced the disappearance of many others – some of them babies.
Dozens of Bitter Winter Reporters Arrested
Accused of espionage and subversion, at least 45 contributors were arrested and interrogated; the reporter who filmed a secret camp in Xinjiang “disappeared” after the arrest.
How to Hide Illegal Detentions? China Gets Creative
Fearing international inspectors seeking human rights abuses in Xinjiang, authorities adopt strict methods to conceal activities and to intimidate families into silence.