Forced labor camps were shut down, but CCP set up community corrections in its place, which still curtails freedom. In 2013, the Chinese government announced it would be shutting down its numerous forced labor camps and denied it would be setting up the alternative...
Despite China's denials about the existence of "transformation through education camps” in Xinjiang, Bitter Winter continues to receive accounts from people detained in such facilities. During China’s review at the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial...
The building, constructed as a regular prison, will have extensive secret facilities and is planned to accommodate at least 10,000 inmates. According to informed sources, the municipal government of Karamay, Xinjiang has put other construction projects on hold to...
The local authorities lock up people in “education” camps even for speaking the Uyghur language. Bitter Winter recently interviewed Shihezi resident Zhang Hui whose relatives, including his two brothers, were all arrested and places in a “transformation through...
A Bitter Winter reporter has managed to talk to a detainee in one of the “transformation through education camps” for local Muslims in Xinjiang, where over 1,200 men and women are held. The “transformation through education camp” is in a three-story building...
An inside source revealed to Bitter Winter how officers from Ulan-Usu town of Shawan county use false pretexts to lure Muslims into the police station, later locking them up in a local “transformation through education” camp. One evening at the end of March this year,...
A 76-year-old bed-ridden Muslim has been sent for “transformation through education” after one of his grandchildren has been detained. Ma Weijun (pseudonym), a Hui Muslim from Wusu city, Xinjiang Province, is entirely incapable of taking care of himself because he is...
An Uyghur couple, both with medical problems, from Kumul city in Xinjiang, were arrested and detained in “transformation through education camps,” leaving their three children behind. Bitter Winter interviewed one of them. On June 18, 2018, the police arrested Guli, a...
The Chinese government expands the network of “transformation through education camps” in Xinjiang. Bitter Winter has obtained videos and photos showing the outside of these facilities. Bitter Winter reported in July that the Chinese Communist Party had repurposed the...
In a decision awaited with interest in political and diplomatic circles, the Court of Zharkent, Kazakhstan, has ruled that a Chinese Muslim woman, who entered the country illegally, should not be deported to China, where she would face imprisonment and torture. Bitter...