August 30 was the International Day of the Disappeared. Bitter Winter interviewed exiled Uyghurs who are in the vain search of their loved ones.
Re-Education Camps
Kazakhstan, Serikzhan Bilash in Court Again
There is no peace for the human rights activist who denounces the horrors of the transformation through education camps in Xinjiang.
Ekrem Mehmet: No Welcome, No Goodbye
A young father dies before being allowed to see his newly born child. Another Uyghur victim of the transformation through education camps.
Are Uyghurs Really Freed from Internment Camps?
Having declared that over 90 % of detained Uyghurs in Xinjiang had been released, the CCP continues subjecting them to forced labor in the region’s factories.
The Police Region of Xinjiang: Checkpoints, Camps, and Fear
Police officers from inland China, who worked in Xinjiang, disclose details of control measures employed by the CCP to suppress Uyghur Muslims.
Believers Tortured to Renounce Their Faith in Xinjiang’s Camps
Along with Muslims, members of The Church of Almighty God, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other persecuted groups are also sent to internment camps for “transformation.”
For Uyghurs, “Poverty Alleviation” Means Cultural Genocide
Scholar Adrian Zenz exposes how what is advertised as an anti-poverty program in Xinjiang is in fact just another tool to deprive Uyghurs of their identity and coerce them into slave labor.
The Drama of Ethnic Kazakhs Persecuted in Xinjiang: Full Book
On March 3, 2020, Bitter Winter published an interview introducing a new book on the transformation through education camps, Gloom: Sunset on East Turkestan. Here is the book, translated for us by the author.
“Uyghurs Have No Human Rights”: A Tragedy Coming to You on Your TV
Robin Barnwell’s documentary “China Undercover” is astonishing. It will air on PBS on April 7.
With Breadwinners Locked in Camps, Families Struggle to Survive
The mass confinement of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs in internment camps resulted in a myriad of children and parents of the detained left with no means of subsistence.