Workers who were hired to build transformation through education camps in Xinjiang reveal details about the jails that the CCP likes to call “vocational schools.”
Re-Education Camps
Xinjiang’s Camps Are ‘Ideal’ Settings for Infections to Spread
An ex-detainee and relatives of those who have died in transformation through education camps share their horrifying experiences with Bitter Winter.
Xinjiang Camps: A Book Exposes CCP’s Lies
An interview with Kazakh author Turarbek Kusainov, whose book on the experience of ethnic Kazakhs in the transformation through education camps is greatly embarrassing China.
Sayragul Sauytbay Honored as “Woman of Courage” in the U.S.
Bitter Winter campaigned for preventing the deportation back to China of this heroic ethnic Kazakh woman, who escaped the Xinjiang camps and fled to Kazakhstan. Now, she is honored as she deserves.
Released from Xinjiang Camps but Forced to Lie About Them
The wife of a Hui Muslim held in one of the internment camps details how the Chinese government silences inmates to hide the truth about its persecutions.
With Husbands in Camps, Hui Women Struggle Taking Care of Families
When almost all men from a village in northern Xinjiang were locked up in internment camps, their wives were left alone to run households.
Released from Camps, Uyghurs Subjected to Forced Labor
After indoctrination in internment camps, Muslims are sent outside Xinjiang to be further “transformed” through work in conditions reminiscent of those in captivity.
Members of Lithuanian and European Parliament to Kazakhstan: Do Not Deport Refugees Back to China
Bitter Winter reported on the case of two ethnic Kazakhs who escaped the transformation through education camps. Some brave European politicians, led by Lithuanian MP Mantas Adomėnas, now speak up in their favor.
European Parliament Condemns China Over “Re-Education” Camps in Xinjiang
The day after Uyghur dissident Ilham Tohti received the 2019 Sakharov Prize, the European Parliament passed a resolution telling China that camps should be closed.
Scholar Visited Xinjiang, Told the Truth—and Lost His Job in Albania
Dr Olzi Jazexhi accepted the CCP’s invitation to visit the transformation through education camps. He concluded they are jails, not schools. The CCP quickly retaliated.