An institute that provided training and education in Arabic was recently shut down in Ningxia’s Wuzhong city. In April, the authorities showed up at the Zaoyuan Arabic Translation Training Base and Islamic Scripture Institute under the guise of checking the building’s...
Police arrested a Muslim Kazakh woman from Manas County in January. She continues to be held in custody to date. In January, four local police officers stormed into Ms. Nawal’s (pseudonym) home in Xinjiang’s Manas County. She had recently been diagnosed with cancer...
Muslims in Xinjiang are being forced to participate in drills that involve marching in considerable numbers to endorse the Chinese Communist Party. In July, more than 400 Muslims in a Xinjiang village marched towards a mosque and yelled, “we will support the Communist...
Local government in Xinjiang is pitting the Han Chinese residents against their Muslim neighbors to achieve “social stability.” Bitter Winter recently spoke to residents in Xinjiang regarding new government policy, known as “ten household joint defense.” In April,...
Bitter Winter has received more testimonies from persecuted local Muslims in Xinjiang Province. In March 2018, Wan Ming, a devout Hui Muslim from Anjihai town of Shawan county, was taken away along with his son by the police for his faith. His younger brother Wan...
The CCP authorities detained a number of imams last year and continue to hold them for no reason. An imam is an honorific title in Islam given to a person who is the head of a mosque. It is a role equivalent to that of a priest in charge of a church in Christianity or...
The CCP authorities continue taking down Islamic symbols from mosques and other buildings in China’s Xinjiang region. The crescent moon and star, commonly recognized as the symbol of the Islamic faith, is disappearing from both secular and religious buildings in...
The demonstration of August 8, 2018, with 30,000 Muslims preventing the demolition of a mosque outside Xinjiang, proves that China is cracking down on Islam per se, not on “Uyghur separatism” only. It is very rare to attend a human rights conference throughout the...
It took 14 days for the Chinese government to destroy a large Hui mosque in Manas county of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang. A resident of Manas county has reported to Bitter Winter how she witnessed the demolition of a large mosque at the beginning...
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...