Authorities forcibly took away Islamic-style architectural symbols from the rooftops of residential buildings in the city of Yinchuan. According to informed sources, in late-March 2018, several cranes were driven into the Luhuazhou community of the Xixia district in...
Eyewitnesses reveal that a vocational training center has been turned into a “transformation through education” camp in Bole city, Xinjiang. Informed sources report that a vocational training center located at No. 13 Qiancheng Road, Nancheng in Xinjiang’s Bole has...
Only four Muslim adults remain in 30 households on one of the alleys in a Xinjiang village; the rest are detained in camps. Since this spring, at least 60 individuals from a village in Manas County of the Changji prefecture in Xinjiang have been apprehended by...
Elementary and middle school students in the region are being forced to abandon their religious belief. Preceding the holy month of Ramadan in May this year, the head teacher at a school in Xinjiang’s Turpan issued a verbal directive for all Uyghur or Islamic imagery...
An imam from Henan Province was lured to come to a police station and has been detained for over eight months. Wang Haoyi (pseudonym), an imam from Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo city in Henan Province was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government for explaining...
Authorities in Shihezi, Xinjiang ordered the demolition of mosques and later rebuilt some of them as plain-looking bunkhouses without any identifying symbols. According to an insider in Shihezi, the local government ordered to close down all mosques in the city,...
Authorities closed down a Mosque in Ergong village in the city of Shihezi, Xinjiang, and sent local Muslims to a “transformation through education” camp in late April. A local villager said that on April 20, 2018, the Shihezi police and auxiliary police surrounded the...
Bitter Winter interviews reveal cases of arrests and punishments for even minor associations with religions. Schools in Xinjiang are strictly forbidden from celebrating religious festivals, studying the Quran, and participating in any religious activities. Violators...
Three victims tell stories of ordinary persecution for the Muslims, arrested simply for growing a beard, wearing a headscarf or reading the Quran. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established in 1955. History, however, has proved that it is “autonomous” in...
Sources from Yining city report about further measures against Islam in Xinjiang, and new “transformation through education” camps being built. Bitter Winter continues to receive reports from Xinjiang about the massive crackdown on the local Muslim population,...