In an exclusive interview, the former camp worker describes worsening abuses, transnational pressure, and the urgent need for global accountability.
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Kazakhstan’s Detention of Xinjiang Witnesses: Beijing’s Long Arm Reaches Across the Border
Protesting against China now results in activists being detained—and held in a unclear legal situation.
Criminal Law Is Not Retroactive, Right? Not True if You Are a Muslim in Xinjiang
Research by anthropologist Darren Byler uncovers gross violations of China’s own laws to punish Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs who pray and read religious books.
Muslims Commemorated Osman Batur, Hanged Hero and Martyr
The legendary ethnic Kazakh commander did what he could in a complicated geopolitical situation to protect the identity of the Turkic peoples.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: Ethnic Kazakh Dissident Detained
She told Bitter Winter and the world she was in grave danger of being arrested. She was right.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: “Help Me, I Just Want to Leave China”
The ethnic Kazakh dissident tells Bitter Winter she continues to be embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the authorities as she waits under virtual house arrest in Urumqi.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: A Dramatic Interview with an Ethnic Kazakh Camp Survivor Who May Soon “Disappear”
Bitter Winter interviewed the 43-year-old artist in Urumqi, where the police is threatening to take her to a psychiatric hospital.
Ethnic Kazakhs Massively Detained in Xinjiang Under Pretext of Quarantine
As COVID measures, the massive detention and the separation of nomads from their animals do not make sense. It is just additional repression of a minority.
Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture: Crackdown on Islam Intensifies
A new “political reeducation” system answers the protests against the detention of popular religious figures
Ata Zholy: Crackdown on a Kazakh Islamic Religious Movement in Russia
Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the groups was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to channel Sufi saints.