The employees at a hospital in Xinjiang that are sent to live with Uyghurs through the “home-stay” program are instructed to watch for “suspicious” activities in the families, such as not crying at funerals, quitting smoking, or growing a beard.
Muslim Uyghurs
Xinjiang Continues to Arrest Working Muslim Men
Apart from being a human rights crisis, this is also leading to broken households as many lose their breadwinners.
Uyghur Youth Locked up for Using an App
Authorities are monitoring a content sharing app, and anyone who uses it has their cellphone suspended automatically.
Xinjiang, the Ridiculous Defense of the Indefensible
According to the communist regime, the repressed Muslims are very happy to be repressed. And the real victim is the government, deceptively insulted by those who defend human rights.
Should We Use the G Word? Chinese Persecution and Genocide
International scholars start asking the question whether what China is doing to the Uyghurs, members of Falun Gong, and other groups, should be properly qualified as genocide
Xinjiang Residents Told to Worship Xi Jinping
The Chinese authorities are forcing people to worship their leader and the Party instead of God. A woman from an Uyghur household in Xinjiang’s Kashgar city told Bitter Winter recently that the authorities had told countless families like hers to put up a portrait of...
Muslim Workers Sent Back to Hometowns
Several Uyghur and Hui Muslims were forced to leave their place of work and return to their hometowns.
Uyghur Man in Custody, Family Torn Apart
He was taken away in April last year for learning Quran with an Imam. Even today, his release is uncertain.
New Law “Legalizes” Re-Education Camps in Xinjiang
China had long denied that “transformation through education” camps for Muslims exist in Xinjiang. Now it announces that all is well, since a new law made them legal.
CCP Monitors Xinjiang Educational Institute
The Xinjiang Supply and Marketing Technical School in Shihezi has students from Uyghur and Kazakh ethnicities, which is why it is under strict government surveillance.