In what is representative of the current state of affairs in Xinjiang, a Muslim family was torn apart after four of its female members were detained for indefinite periods.
Islam in China
More Camps for Muslims (VIDEOS)
Another building has been discovered as a “transformation through education” camp in Xinjiang. As hundreds of Muslims of various ethnicities continue to be detained, Chinese authorities are working on creating more and more spaces to hold them. Bitter Winter has...
How CCP Makes Life Difficult for Muslims in Xinjiang
Newborns and infants too are left to fend for themselves if their parents are taken away to camps. Bitter Winter recently spoke to a university student in Xinjiang’s Kumul city about how CCP’s policies against Muslims have impacted his life. To begin with, Erkin...
Another Camp for Muslims Discovered in Xinjiang
The authorities have implemented strict measures to disguise a camp as a vocational training center. In Xinjiang’s Akto county, which lies in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, there is a building complex in the Light Industrial Park area. While the authorities...
“Uyghurs Are Forced to Denounce Their Faith to Survive”
Uyghur human rights scholar and activist Zubayra Shamseden tells Bitter Winter that CCP sees all Uyghur as enemies, is engaged in the largest detention of an ethnic group since World War II, and has now extended its repression to other Muslim minorities.
Muslims Given Heavy Sentences for Possession of Islamic Videos
Authorities in Xinjiang have been handing out illegal sentences of over ten years to Chinese Muslims. The Chinese Communist Party-backed authorities have been detaining Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Hui Muslims under a suspected violation of Article 120 of Chinese Criminal...
Authorities Wipe Out Mosques in Shihezi City
Most mosques in this Xinjiang city had been demolished already, but now the remaining ones are being shut down as well. The residents of China’s western region of Xinjiang where almost half of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, have been going through increasingly...
Volatile Times Ahead for Muslims in Xinjiang
People are increasingly terrified of the authorities as arrests of Chinese Muslims become more frequent and random. Bitter Winter has received reports from all over Xinjiang that detail the various reasons for which people got picked up by the police for their...
Muslims Forced to Throw Away Faith-Related Household Items
Authorities in Xinjiang visit the homes of Muslims and force them to get rid of all household items with Islamic symbols. Under the “de-Arabization” initiative, the Xinjiang authorities are visiting the homes of local Muslims and force them to get rid of all things at...
Troubling Accounts From Family Members of Xinjiang Camp Detainees
Bitter Winter has received more testimonies about arrests and detention of people at “transformation through education” camps in China's Xinjiang Province. It is believed that the authorities in China recently detained over a million people, mostly Uyghurs and others...