A “transformation through education” camp in Xinjiang’s Urumqi city houses a secret factory where 300 detained Uyghur women are forced to work. Bitter Winter has received reports that over 300 Uyghur women are held inside an ordinary-looking building that has been...
In an NPR interview, Senator Marco Rubio asks President Trump to react with sanctions to the horror of “transformation through education” camps. On September 7, U.S. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who is co-chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China,...
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...
Ignoring appeals by the Red Cross and several NGOs, Germany has forcibly deported Sister Zhao, a member of The Church of Almighty God, back to China on August 31. She is unaccounted for since. Bitter Winter has reported repeatedly on the case of Sister Zhao Xueliang,...
The “ten household joint defense” policy is rapidly spreading across Xinjiang and terrifying both the minorities and Han Chinese people. Recently, Bitter Winter reported about the “ten household joint defense,” which has been instituted in several regions of Xinjiang....
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...
A female officer in Xinjiang is forced to take part in the program of forced indoctrination of Uyghur Muslims and is not allowed to resign. In December last year, the Xinjiang government introduced its ‘two full coverages’ policy. It stipulates that a Party cadre or a...
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of RaciaL Discrimination denounces mass detention of Uyghur Muslims in its report on China On August 30, 2018, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations released its periodical report on...
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...
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,...