Refugees | Bitter Winter

How a Kazakh Critic of China Became an Asylum Seeker in the Netherlands

Activist and Bitter Winter correspondent Laila Adilzhan managed to land in Amsterdam with the help of American friends. It was quite an adventure.

More than 100 asylum seekers were detained in Almaty and escorted back to Xinjiang by officers of the Chinese Consulate and Kazakh police.

Judges recognized that the CAG is severely persecuted in China, and members are harassed by the CCP even abroad.

Decision was historical but was just a start, Uyghur refugees say.

Kaster Musakhan and Murager Alimuly will be protected until October 2022. China answers with commercial retaliations.

Attorney David Bitel died five years ago. “Devil in a Lawyers Suit”, the movie that premiered on Bitter Winter, is now winning awards.

“Devil in a Lawyers Suit” is about David Bitel, who died of cancer before trial when he was facing 21 charges of sexual abuse.

An important decision recognized refugee status in Italy to members of groups classified as “xie jiao” by the Chinese Communist Party.

Those who want to prevent ethnic Kazakhs who escaped from China from telling their stories continue to resort to legal and illegal actions.

A monumental study of 271 decisions rendered in administrative and court cases shows that more applications are being accepted—but not everywhere.