Since spring 2017, Chinese authorities have increased their suppression efforts against Islam, demolishing innumerable mosques and sending Muslims to re-education camps. Recently, a Bitter Winter reporter visited the sites of six demolished mosques in the city of...
Muslim Uyghurs
Video: Re-Education Camp for Uyghur Muslims
The Chinese Communist Party has repurposed the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Xigebi, the city of Kumul in Xinjiang for a conversion study group, or as it is more commonly known as a transformation through education camp. Bitter Winter has obtained a...
Uyghur Children “Orphaned” After Their Parents Were Sent to Camps
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 7, 2018 Over two hundred Muslim Uyghur children, from seven to seventeen-years-old, ended up in the welfare system of the Xinjiang’s city of Bole because their parents and relatives have been arrested and sent to the...
Detainees Recount Abuse in Chinese Re-Education Centers
Source: The Globe and Mail Date: July 5, 2018 Chinese officials have denied the existence of the re-education camps and refused to accept inspections from foreign countries, which adds to the concerns over human-rights violations in China, reports Canadian daily The...
Over 400 Uyghur Women Detained in Unbearable Conditions
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 Chinese Communist authorities have created an immense network of “re-education” camps for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang since the beginning of its massive “sinicization of religion” campaign. Presented as the...
Almost All Muslim Men Over Thirty in a Xinjiang Village Sent to “Re-Education” Camps
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 27, 2018 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police arrested almost all male Muslims over the age of thirty in a village in Xinjiang and sent them to “transformation through education camps” – an immense network of camps for...
“Home-Stay” Program for Uyghur Muslims: Stories From the Frontline
Article based on direct reports from China, June 26, 2018 Since the beginning of 2018, Chinese authorities have been implementing the so-called “home-stay” program in Xinjiang Province – over a million Communist Party cadres, officials of state institutions, and...
Elimination of Religion Through Party Allegiance Ceremonies
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: June 9, 2018 Since April 2017, the Chinese Communist Party has been conducting ceremonies of allegiance to the Party in government institutions, enterprises, as well as colleges and universities. Party and league members are...
China Is Deprogramming One Million “Religious Extremists”
Massimo Introvigne On May 24, 2018, a heated confrontation took place at the United Nations in New York. The United States and Germany accused China of keeping hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uyghurs in “re-education camps.” The Chinese representative answered that...
US Defends Uyghurs at the United Nations
Source: Foreign Affairs Date: May 26, 2018 Foreign Affairs reports on changing patterns in the United States’ official attitude toward China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. In the years following 9/11, the US and China found a common enemy in the Uyghurs as the United...



