Bitter Winter has received reports from Lanzhou city in Gansu Province where ten believers at a family church were illegally detained and severely tortured for their belief. On May 25, two believers, Hao Zhen and Lin Qiang (all names are pseudonyms) were in the local...
A woman suffered constant physical and mental abuse while in prison for her belief in God. In May 2018, the police in Jiangxi Province’s Jiujiang city arrested a woman, Aizhen (pseudonym) for her Christian belief. The officers also snatched away her phone and...
A member of The Church of Almighty God, a Chinese Christian new religious movement, was arrested for her belief; some days later, her family was notified that she had killed herself. Xie Xin (pseudonym) from Guizhou Province, was arrested by the police in late March...
Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor from Zhejiang Province, discloses details of being detained in a water dungeon. In June 2015, the local police of Qianxi arrested and detained Dai Xiaoqiang, a pastor in a house church in Hangzhou, in the Guiyang airport. He was accused of...
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...
Over 100 members of The Church of Almighty God have been arrested in the city of Chongqing since this April. The whereabouts of 40 detainees remain unknown; seven reported to have been tortured. According to government insiders, as early as the beginning of 2018, the...
A Griffith University lecturer, accused of being “in China’s pocket” for his attempts to deny that organs of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience are “harvested,” is being investigated and banned from traveling abroad. He denies all charges. Australian media report that...
The Chinese police practice “soft” torture violence, aiming at destroying person’s spirit by using psychological pressure instead of physical force. Since the beginning of April, the Jiangsu provincial police launched a unified operation aimed at The Church of...
A couple who are both members of The Church of Almighty God were arrested for their belief and tortured with drugs, among other methods. In 1986, China signed the United Nations Convention Against Torture, also known as UNCAT. It was ratified two years later in 1988,...
Two house church pastors were apprehended while preaching in Xinjiang; a colleague tries to secure their release but is arrested and tortured herself. In December 2017, two pastors from a house church in Songyuan city, Jilin, were arrested while preaching in Huocheng...