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    Panchen Lama: Tibetans Forced to Worship the False One at Gunpoint
    Panchen Lama: Tibetans Forced to Worship the False One at Gunpoint

    Gyaltsen Norbu toured Tibet this year and talked to captive audiences, compelled to listen to him by the CCP security. by Ugyen Gyalpo May 17, 2020. marked the 25th anniversary of the kidnap

    Religion and Human Rights
    Church of Almighty God Members “Deprogrammed” in Jail
    Church of Almighty God Members “Deprogrammed” in Jail

    Under CCP’s “transformation” program, CAG members are abused and tortured, until they sign the “three statements,” promising to give up their belief. by Cai Congxin In April 2019, the Genera

    Religion and Human Rights
    Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Moved to Top Security Prison: Report
    Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Moved to Top Security Prison: Report

    Authorities in Hong Kong have transferred 24-year-old democracy activist Agnes Chow to a top-security prison that places Category A prisoners convicted of violent crime in solitary confinement, ac...

    Religion and Human Rights
    A 3-Year “Final Solution” Plan Against The Church of Almighty God
    A 3-Year “Final Solution” Plan Against The Church of Almighty God

    Countless CAG members have been arrested following a national crackdown operation launched this September to eradicate the Church. by Wang Yichi The Central Political and Legal Affairs

    Religion and Human Rights
    Ill Christian Cui Yuhua Dies for Delay in Treatment by Police Arrest & Abuse
    Ill Christian Cui Yuhua Dies for Delay in Treatment by Police Arrest & Abuse

    Cui Yuhua, female, born in 1971, a resident in Yinliu village in Yucheng town in Boshan district of Zibo city in the eastern province of Shandong, joined The Church of Almighty God in 2010. She wa...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Catholic Sanctuary of Our Lady of Zhaojialing Under CCP Attack
    Catholic Sanctuary of Our Lady of Zhaojialing Under CCP Attack

    The village is a nationally famous pilgrimage site since the 19th century. Now, the Catholic signs and images are disappearing. by Zhang Feng In the Northern province of Shanxi, the Zhaojialing vi

    Religion and Human Rights
    Switzerland Confirms Handing Out Schengen Visas to Chinese Security Agents
    Switzerland Confirms Handing Out Schengen Visas to Chinese Security Agents

    Switzerland has admitted to handing out Schengen visas to agents of the Chinese state, after a report revealed it has scant oversight over what law enforcement officers sent by the Chinese Communi...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Christian Interrogated Secretly for 41 Days, Left with Multiple Injuries and Disabilities
    Christian Interrogated Secretly for 41 Days, Left with Multiple Injuries and Disabilities

    Li An (pseudonym), male, born in 1966, from the eastern province of Jiangsu, is a Christian of The Church of Almighty God (CAG). On April 20, 2020, he was arrested by the CCP police for his belief...

    Religion and Human Rights
    China Repeatedly Harasses Xiamen House Church
    China Repeatedly Harasses Xiamen House Church

    On December 6, a house church in China’s Fujian province was again raided by the local authorities during its service. Xunsiding Church, a house church in Xiamen city, has been repeatedly harasse

    Religion and Human Rights
    76 Church of Almighty God Members Sentenced to Prison
    76 Church of Almighty God Members Sentenced to Prison

    The believers were sentenced to years in prison merely for practicing their faith. One of them was just 19. by Deng Jie Between June and September, 66 Church of Almighty God (CAG) members

    Religion and Human Rights
    New Unified Arrest Operations Target The Church of Almighty God
    New Unified Arrest Operations Target The Church of Almighty God

    Over 300 believers were arrested in October and November, as local authorities launched new crackdown campaigns against this Chinese Christian new religious movement. by Ye Jiajia The

    Religion and Human Rights
    Religious Funerals Dispersed, Cemeteries Desecrated
    Religious Funerals Dispersed, Cemeteries Desecrated

    The CCP bans all religious rites and traditions during funerals and threatens to punish local officials who allow them. by Wang Yichi After the Liaoning Province’s Office of the Ethnic and Rel

    Religion and Human Rights
    CAG Members Tortured in Xinjiang’s Internment Camps
    CAG Members Tortured in Xinjiang’s Internment Camps

    Members of banned religious groups are often detained in transformation through education camps. Three Church of Almighty God believers tell their stories. by Chang Xin A member of The C

    Religion and Human Rights
    ‘Safe Village’ Surveillance Program Invades People’s Homes
    ‘Safe Village’ Surveillance Program Invades People’s Homes

    An expansion of the “Sharp Eyes” project, the new CCP’s scheme offers residents surveillance cameras inside and outside their homes. But to what end? by Zhao Mingzhe A part of the “Sharp Eyes” pro

    Religion and Human Rights
    370+ Church of Almighty God Members Arrested Across China
    370+ Church of Almighty God Members Arrested Across China

    Believers were arrested in several provinces from June to October after prolonged surveillance and pursuing tip-offs from residents. by Lu An Following a unified operation across the eastern provi

    Religion and Human Rights
    Felons Torture Religious Inmates to Earn Sentence Reduction
    Felons Torture Religious Inmates to Earn Sentence Reduction

    A former inmate and a Church of Almighty God member reveal details of mistreatment and torture prevalent in China’s prisons to “transform” people of faith. by Sun Kairui Prisoners of conscie

    Religion and Human Rights
    Believers Arrested and Fined for Bible Verse Hand Fans
    Believers Arrested and Fined for Bible Verse Hand Fans

    Even little keepsakes with religious content are becoming off-limits to people of faith in China, as authorities punish those who make and distribute them. by Wang Yichi Distributing small items w

    Religion and Human Rights
    How the CCP Suppresses Religions by Fabricating False News
    How the CCP Suppresses Religions by Fabricating False News

    Fabricating false news and spreading rumors is one of the go-to tools the CCP uses to crack down on countries, organizations and individuals as hostile forces. It is even used to suppress religiou...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Closed Churches Ordered to Be Sold, Rented, or Destroyed
    Closed Churches Ordered to Be Sold, Rented, or Destroyed

    Local governments repurpose places of worship and turn them into propaganda centers, entertainment venues, or factories. Some are even leveled to the ground. by Yang Guang’an More than 70 Protesta

    Religion and Human Rights
    House Churches Suppressed Across China
    House Churches Suppressed Across China

    Numerous venues were shut down, believers arrested and dispersed in August across Henan, Guizhou, and Fujian provinces. by Li Xiao On August 23, the Gushi county police in Henan Province’s Xinyang

    Religion and Human Rights
    Buddhist Temples Demolished Across Hebei Province
    Buddhist Temples Demolished Across Hebei Province

    Throughout the northern province of Hebei, local authorities continue crackdowns on Buddhist venues, not even sparing protected cultural heritage. by Shen Xinran On September 28, the Liangji town

    Religion and Human Rights
    Believers Tortured and Abused to Renounce Their Faith
    Believers Tortured and Abused to Renounce Their Faith

    When members of The Church of Almighty God are detained for practicing their faith in China, they are subjected to various forms of physical and mental torture. by Cai Congxin On June 1,

    Religion and Human Rights
    Vatican and China Renew Their Agreement
    Vatican and China Renew Their Agreement

    The Holy See admits that “extremely painful situations” are not solved, but claims it is too early to assess the effects of the deal. by Massimo Introvigne With a short press release, the Vati

    Religion and Human Rights
    Christians Arrested, Tortured and Deafened in the Right Ear for Faith
    Christians Arrested, Tortured and Deafened in the Right Ear for Faith

    After being arrested by the CCP police for their faith, members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) are mostly subjected to torture during interrogation. Many of these Christians are injured and dis...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Catholic Clergy Increasingly Subjected to Patriotic Education
    Catholic Clergy Increasingly Subjected to Patriotic Education

    The CCP pressures Catholic priests and nuns to participate in indoctrination activities, like visits to revolutionary heritage sites or classes on patriotic education. by Zheng Jie On October 1, t

    Religion and Human Rights
    Church of Almighty God Members Subjected to Sound Torture
    Church of Almighty God Members Subjected to Sound Torture

    Three members of this banned religious group in China share their horrifying experiences of torture after being arrested for their faith. by Deng Changlin Sound torture is a form of psycho

    Religion and Human Rights
    CCP Officials: ‘Christianity Doesn’t Belong in China’
    CCP Officials: ‘Christianity Doesn’t Belong in China’

    On top of removing crosses, Chinese authorities order to replace Christianity’s main symbol on churches’ seals with the five-pointed star. by Ye Jiajia In July, the government of Lanling county’s

    Religion and Human Rights
    39 Countries at the UN Express “Grave Concerns” on Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong—and Refugees from China
    39 Countries at the UN Express “Grave Concerns” on Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong—and Refugees from China

    A German initiative was also supported by countries that in previous cases kept silent on China, including Italy. by Massimo Introvigne The wind is changing for China, as less and less democra

    Religion and Human Rights
    CCP Investigates Leaks about Religious Persecution
    CCP Investigates Leaks about Religious Persecution

    Increasingly criticized by the international community for crackdowns on people of faith, China’s regime enforces more stringent measures to cover up its crimes. by Gu Xi A few months

    Religion and Human Rights
    Detained Coronavirus Journalist Losing Weight on Hunger Strike: Lawyer
    Detained Coronavirus Journalist Losing Weight on Hunger Strike: Lawyer

    A citizen journalist detained in Shanghai after she reported on the emerging coronavirus epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has lost weight after refusing food in a police-run detention cen...

    Religion and Human Rights
    One More Priest Tortured to Force Him into Official Church
    One More Priest Tortured to Force Him into Official Church

    Father Liu Maochun from the Diocese of Mindong, who refuses to join the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, was arrested and deprived of sleep to break his will. by An Xin On September

    Religion and Human Rights
    Official Catholic Church: State-Approved, Hounded Nonetheless
    Official Catholic Church: State-Approved, Hounded Nonetheless

    Joining the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association does not mean that persecutions end: state-sanctioned venues are also harassed, unduly controlled, and shut. by Yang Xiangwen For years, unregist

    Religion and Human Rights
    Southern Mongolian Herders Further Suppressed
    Southern Mongolian Herders Further Suppressed

    As the CCP’s drive to wipe out Mongolian culture intensifies, new measures are planned to ban livestock grazing—an integral part of the traditional nomadic lifestyle. by Gu Qi After the Chinese go

    Religion and Human Rights
    Civil Servants Tried and Sentenced Covertly for Religious Belief
    Civil Servants Tried and Sentenced Covertly for Religious Belief

    Civil servants serving in government institutions for decades have been arrested for their religious belief, not only removed from office but also secretly tried and sentenced. One day in 2014,...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Christians Coerced into Removing Crosses from Churches
    Christians Coerced into Removing Crosses from Churches

    The CCP comes up with new pretexts to suppress people of faith. In Zhejiang Province, believers’ businesses are threatened if they disobey government orders. by Zhao Mingzhe On July 28, the Huai’e

    Religion and Human Rights
    Minors Detained and Imprisoned for Practicing Their Faith
    Minors Detained and Imprisoned for Practicing Their Faith

    Teenage members of The Church of Almighty God are given hefty sentences, tortured and indoctrinated, and deprived of visitation rights when in detention. by Gu Xi On June 29, the People’s Court of

    Religion and Human Rights
    Bishop Jia Zhiguo Under House Arrest Again
    Bishop Jia Zhiguo Under House Arrest Again

    The popular bishop was taken away by authorities on August 10. He has been harassed for months to close an orphanage for disabled children he runs for 30 years. by Shen Xinran Before the V

    Religion and Human Rights
    News of Swiss Agreement Allowing Deportations to China Raises Concerns for Tibetans
    News of Swiss Agreement Allowing Deportations to China Raises Concerns for Tibetans

    A previously little-known agreement between Switzerland and China allowing Chinese officials access to Chinese nationals applying for asylum in the European country has come up for renewal, prompt...

    Religion and Human Rights
    China’s 'Coercive Diplomacy' Backfires as Czech Senate Delegation Visits Taiwan
    China’s 'Coercive Diplomacy' Backfires as Czech Senate Delegation Visits Taiwan

    In defiance of China, a delegation, led by Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil, Sunday arrived in Taiwan on a six-day visit — the highest-level exchange between the two countries to cement econo...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Xinjiang Authorities Jail Family Members of Two Uyghurs in Exile For Travel, Overseas Ties
    Xinjiang Authorities Jail Family Members of Two Uyghurs in Exile For Travel, Overseas Ties

    Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have imprisoned the family members of two Uyghur women living in exile for their travels abroad and overseas connections, ...

    Religion and Human Rights
    People’s Homes Destroyed to Build ‘New Socialist Countryside’
    People’s Homes Destroyed to Build ‘New Socialist Countryside’

    Behind the “success” of the CCP’s rural revitalization campaign hide stories of misery and pain by its “beneficiaries.” by Sun Kairui The East Asian rainy season, called meiyu or plum rains in Chi

    Religion and Human Rights
    Ethnic Mongolian Parents Strike Over China's New Language Policy in Schools
    Ethnic Mongolian Parents Strike Over China's New Language Policy in Schools

    Parents in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia are refusing to send their children to school this semester in protest over changes to the curriculum by the ruling Chinese Communist Party. ...

    Religion and Human Rights
    State-Run Institutions Investigate Employees’ Religious Status
    State-Run Institutions Investigate Employees’ Religious Status

    Religious persecution in China affects each aspect of believers’ life. Those unwilling to give up their faith may lose their jobs. by Zhang Wenshu   On July 28, thousands of workers in

    Religion and Human Rights
    Investigated for Selling or Buying Bible Players
    Investigated for Selling or Buying Bible Players

    The CCP persecutes people for electronic devices with religious content as part of the campaign against “illegal publications and pornography.” by Lin Yijiang In recent years, audio Bible players

    Religion and Human Rights
    Chinese Coast Guard Seizes Boat, Arrests 12 Hong Kong Protesters
    Chinese Coast Guard Seizes Boat, Arrests 12 Hong Kong Protesters

    Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained more than 10 people believed to be Hong Kong activists fleeing to the democratic island of Taiwan amid a national security c...

    Religion and Human Rights
    English-Language News App Censored Tibet, Dalai Lama References
    English-Language News App Censored Tibet, Dalai Lama References

    An English-language news app connected to major Western media sources routinely censored references to Tibet, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and other key words deemed politically sensit...

    Religion and Human Rights
    The Dragon and the Mouse: China Foreign Minister Meets Italian Colleague Amid Protest
    The Dragon and the Mouse: China Foreign Minister Meets Italian Colleague Amid Protest

    Hong Kong democratic leader Nathan Law, DAFOH, and Falun Gong practitioners made their voices heard in Rome—not to very much avail by Marco Respinti On August 25, the Chinese Foreign Minister,

    Religion and Human Rights
    Hong Kong vexed as China censors textbooks
    Hong Kong vexed as China censors textbooks

    Critics say Beijing's move will put an end to academic freedom in the territory China has tightened its grip on the education system in Hong Kong, barely two months after Beijing implemented a new na

    Religion and Human Rights
    Bans on Religious Funeral Ceremonies Further Expanded
    Bans on Religious Funeral Ceremonies Further Expanded

    The CCP enforces strict measures to prohibit people from saying goodbye to their deceased devout family members according to religious traditions and customs. by Wang Yichi In June, the Office of

    Religion and Human Rights
    Large Numbers of Hong Kong Residents Leave Amid National Security Crackdown
    Large Numbers of Hong Kong Residents Leave Amid National Security Crackdown

    As Australia relaxed visa rules for thousands of Hong Kong residents studying and working in the country, analysts say many more will likely emigrate from the city in the wake of a draconian natio...

    Religion and Human Rights
    China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men
    China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men

    A video clip asking 100 Uighur women to “urgently” sign up for intermarriage with Chinese men has been circulating on social media platforms in recent weeks, with observers and Uighur human rights...

    Religion and Human Rights
    CCP Afraid of a “Belarus Effect,” Calls for “Absolute Obedience” to the Party
    CCP Afraid of a “Belarus Effect,” Calls for “Absolute Obedience” to the Party

    Chinese media have been ordered to spread fake news about Belarus, and a campaign has been launched stressing that the CCP and Xi Jinping should be obeyed unconditionally. by Massimo Introvigne

    Religion and Human Rights
    Siblings Get Lengthy Jail Terms in Xinjiang For Links to Turkey-Based Uyghur Scholar
    Siblings Get Lengthy Jail Terms in Xinjiang For Links to Turkey-Based Uyghur Scholar

    Authorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have jailed four siblings and a brother-in-law of an Ankara-based Uyghur academic for more than a decade each for "aiding and abetting...

    Religion and Human Rights
    1,634 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in First Half of 2020
    1,634 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in First Half of 2020

    Mass arrest operations were planned across China before the coronavirus outbreak. If it were not for the pandemic, even more people could have been detained. by Gu Xi As Bitter Winter has previous

    Religion and Human Rights
    Hong Kong Textbook Revisions Will Lead to 'Brainwashing,' Teachers Warn
    Hong Kong Textbook Revisions Will Lead to 'Brainwashing,' Teachers Warn

    Authorities in Hong Kong are targeting the Liberal Studies program in the city's schools, and look likely to use it to "brainwash" students into unquestioning patriotism and loyalty to the ruling ...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Spirit Breaking: On Mosque Rectification and Cultural Genocide
    Spirit Breaking: On Mosque Rectification and Cultural Genocide

    A public toilet installed on the remains of the Tokul mosque in Xinjiang—and other rites of humiliation the CCP performs against religion. by Matthew Omolesky China’s campaign of religious rep

    Religion and Human Rights
    September 1, The Death Bell Will Ring for Southern Mongolian Identity
    September 1, The Death Bell Will Ring for Southern Mongolian Identity

    The CCP launches a three-year plan to progressively replace Mongolian with Chinese as the primary language of instruction in all schools in Inner Mongolia. by Massimo Introvigne Teachers are c

    Religion and Human Rights
    Majority of 19,000 People to Be Placed in Jobs are Xinjiang Camp Detainees
    Majority of 19,000 People to Be Placed in Jobs are Xinjiang Camp Detainees

    The majority of tens of thousands of people from a southeastern prefecture of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who will be hired to do construction work in coming years are current...

    Religion and Human Rights
    More Church of Almighty God Members Arrested and Tortured
    More Church of Almighty God Members Arrested and Tortured

    Using pandemic restrictions as a pretext to check residents’ identity, authorities hunt down believers from this banned religious group. by Zhou Xiaolu In 2019, China’s government launched yet ano

    Religion and Human Rights
    18 Jehovah’s Witnesses Sentenced to Years in Jail in Xinjiang
    18 Jehovah’s Witnesses Sentenced to Years in Jail in Xinjiang

    The 18 Jehovah’s Witnesses arrested in Xinjiang have now been sentenced to long jail terms. Lawyers complain of the inhumane conditions of their detention. by Chang Xin   Bitter Winter h...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Cai Xia Expelled from the CCP, Calls Xi “a Mafia Boss” and the Party “a Political Zombie”
    Cai Xia Expelled from the CCP, Calls Xi “a Mafia Boss” and the Party “a Political Zombie”

    The former top ideologue at Central Party School says Xi Jinping should go. Kicked out of the CCP and deprived of her retirement benefits, she can soon be arrested. by Massimo Introvigne

    Religion and Human Rights
    Hunt for Unsanctioned Religious Materials Continues Nationwide
    Hunt for Unsanctioned Religious Materials Continues Nationwide

    Provincial and municipal governments intensify measures to purge from state-run churches all publications that are not approved by the state. by Wang Yong On June 18, the Two Chinese Christian Cou

    Religion and Human Rights
    Xinjiang Hospitals Aborted, Killed Babies Outside Family Planning Limits: Uyghur Obstetrician
    Xinjiang Hospitals Aborted, Killed Babies Outside Family Planning Limits: Uyghur Obstetrician

    Hospitals in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) were forced to abort and kill babies born in excess of family planning limits or who were in utero less than three years aft...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Still Unaccounted For 3 Years After Disappearance
    Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Still Unaccounted For 3 Years After Disappearance

    Three years after prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng disappeared from his cave dwelling home in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi, his wife still has no idea where he is and appeale...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Hong Kong Lawmaker Injured by Car He Said Had Been Following Him
    Hong Kong Lawmaker Injured by Car He Said Had Been Following Him

    A pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong suffered minor injuries after being hit by a car he said had been following him for days. Democratic Party lawmaker Ted Hui had approached the vehicle afte...

    Religion and Human Rights
    'I Feel Pretty Helpless Right Now': Guangdong Rights Attorney Yang Bin
    'I Feel Pretty Helpless Right Now': Guangdong Rights Attorney Yang Bin

    Yang Bin, a human rights lawyer based in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, was recently informed that her law firm wouldn't be renewing her contract, and that the authorities plan to str...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Studying ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ During Pandemic
    Studying ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ During Pandemic

    The CCP forces people to use the infamous “Xi Study Strong Nation” app and uses their accumulated scores to either punish or award them. by Lu Xiaojing Like Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping is obsessed with

    Religion and Human Rights
    US Designates Confucius Institutes 'Foreign Missions' of China
    US Designates Confucius Institutes 'Foreign Missions' of China

    The United States on Thursday designated the Confucius Institute education program as a “foreign mission” of China, setting up the Chinese government-funded language teaching scheme for tougher scru...

    Religion and Human Rights
    World Uyghur Congress to IOC: Stop the 2022 Winter Olympics in China
    World Uyghur Congress to IOC: Stop the 2022 Winter Olympics in China

    London lawyer Michael Polak submits a formal written complaint to the International Olympic Committee. by Marco Respinti China’s record on human rights and religious liberty is so low that the

    Religion and Human Rights
    Hong Kong Media Tycoon's Arrest Sparks Fear of Press Freedom Demise
    Hong Kong Media Tycoon's Arrest Sparks Fear of Press Freedom Demise

    The arrest of pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai and the high-profile police raid on the Apple Daily newspaper this week has stoked widespread fears of the end of Hong Kong as a flourishing city ...

    Religion and Human Rights
    US Officials Sanctioned by China Denounce Measures as Distraction
    US Officials Sanctioned by China Denounce Measures as Distraction

    The 11 U.S. lawmakers and nonprofit leaders sanctioned Monday by China are speaking out, with one spokesperson characterizing the new measures as “not credible” and others as an attempt to “distra...

    Religion and Human Rights
    CCP Investigates Leaks about Persecuted Catholic Priests
    CCP Investigates Leaks about Persecuted Catholic Priests

    Ahead of the Vatican-China deal renewal, the regime makes sure that no information about repressions against Catholic conscientious objectors gets outside China. by An Xin On April 28, Bit

    Religion and Human Rights
    Hong Kong Publisher, Democracy Advocate Arrested
    Hong Kong Publisher, Democracy Advocate Arrested

    Hong Kong media tycoon and staunch democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was one of seven people arrested Monday on charges of violating the new national security law imposed by China. The newspaper App...

    Religion and Human Rights
    CCP Investigates Leaks about Persecuted Catholic Priests
    CCP Investigates Leaks about Persecuted Catholic Priests

    Ahead of the Vatican-China deal renewal, the regime makes sure that no information about repressions against Catholic conscientious objectors gets outside China. by An Xin On April 28, Bitter Wi...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Uyghur Model ‘Disappears’ After Risking Punishment With Video of His Detention
    Uyghur Model ‘Disappears’ After Risking Punishment With Video of His Detention

    A young Uyghur man who risked severe punishment to take a video of himself in detention in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and his aunt, who sent the video out of the country, hav...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Crosses Removed from Churches Across Shandong Province
    Crosses Removed from Churches Across Shandong Province

    Ahead of provincial government inspections, local authorities ordered to eliminate crosses from the roofs of Protestant and Catholic venues from April through June. by Wu Xishan On May 20, more th

    Religion and Human Rights
    US Sanctions Hong Kong Leaders
    US Sanctions Hong Kong Leaders

    The United States has imposed sanctions on Hong Kong’s pro-China government leader and other Hong Kong officials for allegedly suppressing freedom in the former British colony. The Treasury Dep...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Outdoor Buddhist Statues Demolished Nationwide
    Outdoor Buddhist Statues Demolished Nationwide

    The CCP continues its campaign to eliminate religious statues in Hubei and Guangxi provinces. by Cai Congxin In June, the Liangzihu district government in Ezhou, a prefecture-level city in the cen

    Religion and Human Rights
    Police in China's Guangdong Order Eviction of Exiled Dissident's Family
    Police in China's Guangdong Order Eviction of Exiled Dissident's Family

    Dissident Liu Sifang, who fled China after a nationwide crackdown on activists led by police in the eastern province of Shandong, says his family is being harassed by authorities back home after b...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Twitter Announces Labels for State-Controlled Media
    Twitter Announces Labels for State-Controlled Media

    The new label will apply exclusively to “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over p...

    Religion and Human Rights
    In Hong Kong, Some Activists Fear Academic Freedom Will Suffer Under National Security Law
    In Hong Kong, Some Activists Fear Academic Freedom Will Suffer Under National Security Law

    When lecturer Shiu Ka-Chun received a letter from his university last week, he was shocked to find that he had been effectively fired. Shiu, also a legislator, has taught social work at the Bap...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Xinjiang Authorities Relocate Camp Detainees to Restricted-Access ‘Residential Area’
    Xinjiang Authorities Relocate Camp Detainees to Restricted-Access ‘Residential Area’

    Authorities in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have established a special, restricted-access “residential area” to relocate Uyghu...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Uyghur Women, Rarely Informed About Forced Birth Control Procedures, Suffer Lifelong Complications
    Uyghur Women, Rarely Informed About Forced Birth Control Procedures, Suffer Lifelong Complications

    Uyghur women who are forced to undergo birth control procedures in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are rarely informed about their side effects, and regularly experience lif...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Propaganda Through ‘Positive Energy’
    Propaganda Through ‘Positive Energy’

    Reporting only “good news” about the negative has become the CCP’s go-to tool to hide the truth and falsify reality. Be it natural disasters or coronavirus outbreak. by Bai Lin As torrential rains

    Religion and Human Rights
    Ama Adhe, Tibetan Hero, Dies at 88
    Ama Adhe, Tibetan Hero, Dies at 88

    She organized an underground network of women fighting for human rights and freedom, and was tortured for 27 years in the CCP jails. by Massimo Introvigne On August 3, 2020, Adhe Tapontsan

    Religion and Human Rights
    US Activist Accused of Breaching HK's Security Law Says He Will Not Back Down
    US Activist Accused of Breaching HK's Security Law Says He Will Not Back Down

    Samuel Chu, one of six activists now living overseas who Hong Kong has reportedly issued arrest warrants for under its new national security law, has told VOA he will not stop fighting for democracy f...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Uyghurs, CCP Fake News Exposed by New UHRP Report
    Uyghurs, CCP Fake News Exposed by New UHRP Report

    The Uyghur Human Rights Project reveals new details on Beijing’s massive campaign to persuade the world that there is no persecution in Xinjiang. by Ruth Ingram Propaganda exposed Disappearing Uy...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Tibetans Are Denied Rights to Fair Trial Under Chinese Rule: Report
    Tibetans Are Denied Rights to Fair Trial Under Chinese Rule: Report

    Tibetans living under China’s rule are routinely denied the right to a fair trial, with judicial proceedings against them often held in secret and confessions obtained under torture used against t...

    Religion and Human Rights
    Lives Ruined in the Name of Poverty Alleviation
    Lives Ruined in the Name of Poverty Alleviation

    To reach the goal of no impoverished households by the end of 2020, CCP forces villagers with no skills or income to move to cities after their homes are destroyed. by Han Sheng Official media acr

    Religion and Human Rights
    Sicken Christian Detained, Denied Access to Medication, and Died in 16 Days
    Sicken Christian Detained, Denied Access to Medication, and Died in 16 Days

    Although some Christians from The Church of Almighty God (CAG) are seriously ill, they are still subjected to the CCP police’s merciless mistreatment and interrogation, which deteriorate their hea...

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    52 Church of Almighty God Members Given Long Jail Sentences
    52 Church of Almighty God Members Given Long Jail Sentences

    One of the sentenced believers will spend 15 years in prison merely for keeping at home CAG-related e-books and videos. by Chang Xin Amid the coronavirus outbreak, The Church of Almighty God (

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    Hong Kong Postpones Elections By a Year, Citing Coronavirus
    Hong Kong Postpones Elections By a Year, Citing Coronavirus

    Hong Kong’s top leader, Carrie Lam, announced Friday that the city’s September legislative election would be postponed for a year, citing the coronavirus pandemic. The decision dealt a blow to the...

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    Hong Kong Officials Disqualify 12 Pro-Democracy Election Hopefuls
    Hong Kong Officials Disqualify 12 Pro-Democracy Election Hopefuls

    Election authorities in Hong Kong on Thursday disqualified 12 pro-democracy figures who tried to register as candidates in legislative elections slated for September, including former 2014 student...

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    Lives Ruined in the Name of Poverty Alleviation
    Lives Ruined in the Name of Poverty Alleviation

    To reach the goal of no impoverished households by the end of 2020, CCP forces villagers with no skills or income to move to cities after their homes are destroyed. by Han Sheng Official media acr

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    Vatican-China Deal: “The CCP Hacked Vatican Computers”
    Vatican-China Deal: “The CCP Hacked Vatican Computers”

    One of the largest international cybersecurity firms claims that the Chinese have hacked since May the Vatican agencies involved in the renewal of the agreement. by Massimo Introvigne The rene

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    Wife of Jailed Dissident Who Stood up For Uyghurs Calls For His Release
    Wife of Jailed Dissident Who Stood up For Uyghurs Calls For His Release

    Concerns are growing for jailed Xinjiang dissident Zhang Haitao, who has only been allowed three family visits in the past five years of his sentence at a prison in the northwestern region of Xinj...

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    USDA Urges Residents to Avoid Planting ‘China Seeds’
    USDA Urges Residents to Avoid Planting ‘China Seeds’

    The U.S. Agriculture Department issued a warning Monday urging all citizens who received unsolicited packages of seeds to turn the specimens over to the government for testing. The mysterious p...

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    Poverty Alleviation in Xinjiang: Slaving in Jail-Like Plants
    Poverty Alleviation in Xinjiang: Slaving in Jail-Like Plants

    An ethnic Han manager at a garment factory in Xinjiang discloses disturbing details of local Uyghurs’ abuse, disguised as bogus projects to improve their lives. by Chang Xin A Han Chinese man from

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    Residents of China's Shandong Left Homeless by Suspended Rural Resettlement Plan
    Residents of China's Shandong Left Homeless by Suspended Rural Resettlement Plan

    Authorities in the eastern province of Shandong have suspended a mass rural resettlement program after it was criticized by the ruling Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, the People's Da...

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    ‘You Can’t Believe in God in China,’ Police Tell Believers
    ‘You Can’t Believe in God in China,’ Police Tell Believers

    Attacks on house churches across China intensified in the past few months, as police and government officials raid places of worship and intimidate congregations. by Shen Xiang On June 28, a group

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    Southern Mongolia, the Unknown Cultural Genocide
    Southern Mongolia, the Unknown Cultural Genocide

    An interview with Enghebatu Togochog on how the CCP tries to destroy Mongolian identity in what it calls Inner Mongolia. by Massimo Introvigne Enghebatu Togochog is the director of Souther

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    Wife Says Rights Lawyer Ding Jiaxi Tortured in Shandong Detention Center
    Wife Says Rights Lawyer Ding Jiaxi Tortured in Shandong Detention Center

    Concerns are growing over the fate of human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, with his wife raising concerns that he may have been tortured during his time in the Linshi Detention Center in the eastern Ch...

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    Xinjiang Authorities Instruct Residents to Mislead Investigators Over Population Controls
    Xinjiang Authorities Instruct Residents to Mislead Investigators Over Population Controls

    Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are preparing local residents for visits with outside “inspectors” by ordering them to disavow knowledge of “family planni...

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    Unregistered Catholic Priests Pressured into Patriotic Church
    Unregistered Catholic Priests Pressured into Patriotic Church

    As the Vatican-China Deal of 2018 expires in September, the CCP intensifies persecution of Catholic conscientious objectors through harassment and indoctrination. by Wang Yong AsiaNews reporte

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    China Shutters US Consulate in Chengdu in Retaliation for Houston
    China Shutters US Consulate in Chengdu in Retaliation for Houston

    China has ordered the closure of the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu in retaliation for the U.S. decision to close China's consulate in Houston, Texas, by Friday. There are also calls in Chinese medi...

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    The World Wakes Up to China, Denounces Persecution of Uyghurs
    The World Wakes Up to China, Denounces Persecution of Uyghurs

    From Secretary Pompeo to the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, UN experts, and a coalition of 190 NGOs, many are now breaking the silence. by Ruth Ingram Nixon’s China Policy Disc

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    Pompeo Echoes Nixon’s Words: ‘World Cannot Be Safe Until China Changes’
    Pompeo Echoes Nixon’s Words: ‘World Cannot Be Safe Until China Changes’

    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined how the relationship between the United States and China has gone from one of guarded optimism, as witnessed in the era of the Nixon administration, to...

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    How China Exploits Prisoners to Make Goods for Export
    How China Exploits Prisoners to Make Goods for Export

    Members of The Church of Almighty God share their experience manufacturing goods for foreign companies while serving time in prison for their faith. by Lu An Factories and workshops have b

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    US Shut China's Houston Consulate in Retaliation for Intellectual Property Theft, Pompeo Says
    US Shut China's Houston Consulate in Retaliation for Intellectual Property Theft, Pompeo Says

    The U.S. ordered the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, shut down because of the persistent problem of Bejing’s theft of American intellectual property, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wedne...

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    Aygul Eli: How CCP Is Punishing the Brightest Uyghur Students
    Aygul Eli: How CCP Is Punishing the Brightest Uyghur Students

    She was an honor student who wrote an innovative MA thesis. She was punished and sentenced to 20 years in jail. by Martyna Kokotkiewicz Aygul Eli is a young woman. An ambitious and successful st...

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    Believer Tortured and Beaten in Prison to Abandon His Faith
    Believer Tortured and Beaten in Prison to Abandon His Faith

    A member of The Church of Almighty God recounts three years and six months in detention where he was forced to eat cockroaches and banned from the toilet for days. by Deng Jie The Church of Almigh

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    Barricades 'on Every Corner' in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Region Amid New Coronavirus Outbreak
    Barricades 'on Every Corner' in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Region Amid New Coronavirus Outbreak

    Residents of a county bordering the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s (XUAR) Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) city said Tuesday that they are under a strict lockdown as authorities struggle to control ...

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    Church of Almighty God Members Hounded Their Entire Lives
    Church of Almighty God Members Hounded Their Entire Lives

    Countless members of this Christian new religious movement are blacklisted in China and are harassed and persecuted for years, pressured to renounce their faith. by Lu Xiu Once they are arrested f

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    Scholar Hits Out at China's 'Totalitarian' System in Open Letter
    Scholar Hits Out at China's 'Totalitarian' System in Open Letter

    Chinese scholar Xu Zhangrun has penned a passionate call for solidarity among China's embattled dissidents after his release from criminal detention, which came after he published several articles...

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    Tibetan Former Political Prisoner Dies After Years of Ill Health Following Release
    Tibetan Former Political Prisoner Dies After Years of Ill Health Following Release

    A Tibetan protester named Trinley Choeden, also called Samdrub, died in a hospital in Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa earlier this year after suffering years of bad health following two terms in pr...

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    ‘We Choke with Silent Fury’
    ‘We Choke with Silent Fury’

    Buddhists are devastated as local authorities continue implementing the central government’s orders to demolish outdoor religious statues. by Wu Xishan As soon as the coronavirus lockdown has been

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    People on Social Welfare Ordered to Worship CCP, Not God
    People on Social Welfare Ordered to Worship CCP, Not God

    Because of the aid they get from the state, impoverished religious residents are told to renounce their faith, or their benefits will be withdrawn. by Zhang Feng The coronavirus outbreak has signi

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    Xinjiang Capital Urumqi on Lockdown Amidst New Outbreak of Coronavirus
    Xinjiang Capital Urumqi on Lockdown Amidst New Outbreak of Coronavirus

    Authorities in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have ordered a lockdown, cancelling nearly all flights in and out of the city, after confirming at ...

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    'Changsha Three' Rights Activists Secretly Indicted For 'Subversion'
    'Changsha Three' Rights Activists Secretly Indicted For 'Subversion'

    Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have secretly indicted the "Changsha Three" non-governmental organization (NGO) workers, family members and rights groups said. Cheng Yuan, ...

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    Folk Religion Temples Continue to Be Demolished Nationwide
    Folk Religion Temples Continue to Be Demolished Nationwide

    Local officials are pressured to crack down on religions under threats to be expelled from the CCP and fired from their public office if they disobey. by Lu An On May 9, six government institution

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    In China, ‘Civilized’ Means Having Nothing to Do with Religion
    In China, ‘Civilized’ Means Having Nothing to Do with Religion

    Offering monetary rewards and praises, the CCP encourages communities to do away with religions to be named a “civilized village, town, or city.” by Xin Lu On May 29, members of an unregistered Ca

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    US Imposes Visa Restrictions on Chinese Tech Companies' Employees
    US Imposes Visa Restrictions on Chinese Tech Companies' Employees

    The United States is imposing visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese technology companies, including Huawei, for providing “material support to regimes engaging in human rights violatio...

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    Are Uyghurs Really Freed from Internment 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. by Li Benbo Shorat Zakir, the Chairma

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    US State Department Bans Huawei Employees, Cites Human Rights Abuses
    US State Department Bans Huawei Employees, Cites Human Rights Abuses

    After targeting CCP officials who persecute Tibetans, and Xinjiang’s Uyghurs and other Turkic people, Washington hits the regime’s largest supplier of technological tools for repression. by Marco Res

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    China Imposes Harsh Controls on Anniversary of Revered Lama’s Death
    China Imposes Harsh Controls on Anniversary of Revered Lama’s Death

    Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province have imposed tight controls on the movements of Tibetans in Lithang, hometown of revered lama Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, five years after the well-loved...

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    Uyghurs: Yes, It Is a Genocide. A New Report
    Uyghurs: Yes, It Is a Genocide. A New Report

    Campaign for Uyghurs, chaired by Ms. Rushan Abbas, offers evidence of the criminal policies of the CCP, and calls for an international trial. by Marco Respinti How do you call the planned, int

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    Chinese Activists Mark Liu Xiaobo's Death Alone, Silently
    Chinese Activists Mark Liu Xiaobo's Death Alone, Silently

    In the three years since the death in prison of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, the ruling Chinese Communist Party has succeeded in suppressing free speech and public dissent to unprecedented lev...

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    China Levels Retaliatory Sanctions on US Officials Over Xinjiang Measures
    China Levels Retaliatory Sanctions on US Officials Over Xinjiang Measures

    Beijing announced sanctions Monday on U.S. officials and a government agency in retaliation for ones leveled last week by the Trump administration against Chinese officials deemed responsible for ...

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    Afraid to Seek Medical Care, Believer on the Run Dies
    Afraid to Seek Medical Care, Believer on the Run Dies

    For runaway Church of Almighty God members, seeking medical care means being found by the state. Many are arrested in hospitals; others die of untreated illnesses. by Yang Luguang Wang Ping

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    Journalists, Free Speech Activists 'at Risk of Dying' in Chinese Jails
    Journalists, Free Speech Activists 'at Risk of Dying' in Chinese Jails

    At least 10 free-speech activists are at risk of dying behind bars in China, a Paris-based press freedom group said on Friday, as the authorities continued their crackdown on online speech across ...

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    Uyghur Traditional Houses Destroyed by the CCP: Another Tool of Cultural Genocide
    Uyghur Traditional Houses Destroyed by the CCP: Another Tool of Cultural Genocide

    A fascinating study by Timothy Grose shows how the “Three News” brutal campaign in Xinjiang is transforming domestic spaces to eradicate Uyghur identity. by Massimo Introvigne I learned long ago...

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    Rights Lawyer Sues Over Torture, Humiliation in China's Tianjin
    Rights Lawyer Sues Over Torture, Humiliation in China's Tianjin

    Chinese human rights attorney Wang Quanzhang, who recently served a four-and-a-half-year jail term for "subversion," has filed an official complaint against his treatment at the hands of law enfor...

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    WHO Team Heads to China to Investigate COVID-19 Origins
    WHO Team Heads to China to Investigate COVID-19 Origins

    The World Health Organization (WHO) says its two-man advance team left for China Friday to establish the ground work for an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 that sparked the global pande...

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    US State Department Hits CCP Officials Responsible for Atrocities in Xinjiang
    US State Department Hits CCP Officials Responsible for Atrocities in Xinjiang

    One of them is Mr. Chen Quanguo, the CCP Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. His indictment is the first step in the application of the “Global Magnitsky Act” by Marco Respinti W...

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    Australia Suspends Extradition Treaty with Hong Kong   
    Australia Suspends Extradition Treaty with Hong Kong   

    Australia is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in response to the new national security law imposed on the city by China. In announcing the move Thursday, Prime Minister Scott Mo...

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    TikTok to Exit Hong Kong Market Over New National Security Law
    TikTok to Exit Hong Kong Market Over New National Security Law

    TikTok, the popular short-form video app, says it will exit the Hong Kong market in response to the new national security law for the semi-autonomous city recently enacted by Beijing. A spokesm...

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    Church of Almighty God Members Tortured for Their Faith
    Church of Almighty God Members Tortured for Their Faith

    In China, dissidents and members of banned religious groups are often subjected to torture while in detention. Two believers share their stories. by Yang Luguang As Bitter Winter has repeatedly re

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    Chinese Academic Xu Zhangrun, Who Criticized Xi Jinping, Has Been Arrested
    Chinese Academic Xu Zhangrun, Who Criticized Xi Jinping, Has Been Arrested

    The prominent law professor has been accused of “seeking out prostitutes,” a frequent pretext to detain opponents of the CCP by Massimo Introvigne Xu Zhangrun (許章潤 ), born in 1962,is a profess

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    Hong Kong is a 'City in Danger' Under Security Law, According to Its Journalists
    Hong Kong is a 'City in Danger' Under Security Law, According to Its Journalists

    Hong Kong's promised freedoms are now in danger, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party imposes a draconian security law on the city and the local authorities announce sweeping new powers to enforc...

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    Police in Beijing Detain Outspoken Chinese Law Professor
    Police in Beijing Detain Outspoken Chinese Law Professor

    Authorities in the Chinese capital have detained an outspoken law professor who called for political reforms. Xu Zhangrun, law professor at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, was taken ...

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    Pope Francis and China: A Vatican Mystery and a Proposal
    Pope Francis and China: A Vatican Mystery and a Proposal

    Allegedly, on July 5 a paragraph of a pre-written speech by the Pope where he supported freedom in Hong Kong was not read by Francis. To avoid further wild speculations, the Vatican may publish the te

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    Hong Kong Law, Meet the New Special Secret Anti-Dissident Agencies
    Hong Kong Law, Meet the New Special Secret Anti-Dissident Agencies

    The National Security Law creates four new bodies with practically unlimited powers, and no accountability except to the CCP government in Beijing. by Massimo Introvigne Notwithstanding th

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    Canada Suspends Extradition Treaty with Hong Kong
    Canada Suspends Extradition Treaty with Hong Kong

    Canada suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong Friday after local authorities moved swiftly to implement China’s new security law in the territory. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudea...

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    Millions of Taiwanese Could be at Risk From China's Draconian Security Law: DPP
    Millions of Taiwanese Could be at Risk From China's Draconian Security Law: DPP

    A top official in Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has warned the island's 23 million residents to think carefully before traveling to Hong Kong or China in the wake of Hong Kong...

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    China Puts Hardliner in Charge of Hong Kong's New State Security Operation
    China Puts Hardliner in Charge of Hong Kong's New State Security Operation

    The ruling Chinese Communist Party on Friday appointed a former mayor who cracked down on the rebel village of Wukan to head its national security office in Hong Kong. China's cabinet, the Stat...

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    US Senate Passes Bill Targeting Entities Over China's Hong Kong Security Law
    US Senate Passes Bill Targeting Entities Over China's Hong Kong Security Law

      The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that would penalize individuals or companies for conducting business with Chinese officials responsible for implementing Beijing’s new nation...

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    Hundreds of Policemen Sent to Demolish Buddhist Temples
    Hundreds of Policemen Sent to Demolish Buddhist Temples

    The Chinese government continues stepping up efforts to suppress religions by demolishing places of worship. by Shen Xinran The Shengquan Temple in Yi county under the jurisdiction of Baoding city

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    Hong Kong Police Make First Arrests Under New Beijing-Imposed Security Law
    Hong Kong Police Make First Arrests Under New Beijing-Imposed Security Law

    Hong Kong police made their first arrests Wednesday under a new national security law imposed by China’s central government. A man and a woman holding Hong Kong independence signs were arrested...

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    Uyghurs Subject to Mass Sterilization: A New CCP Crime Against Humanity
    Uyghurs Subject to Mass Sterilization: A New CCP Crime Against Humanity

    A new study by Adrian Zenz proves that Muslim women in Xinjiang are massively subjected to forced abortion, sterilized, and fitted with IUDs. by Ruth Ingram Mass sterilization can now be added

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    Hong Kong's Security Law Takes Effect as China Unveils Sweeping Definitions
    Hong Kong's Security Law Takes Effect as China Unveils Sweeping Definitions

    Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday signed a presidential order to impose draconian security legislation on Hong Kong, with effect from 11.00 p.m. local time, an hour before the July 1 handove...

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    Poverty Alleviation—Yet Another Tool to Control Xinjiang
    Poverty Alleviation—Yet Another Tool to Control Xinjiang

    In the name of fighting poverty, the CCP moves impoverished households from across China to Xinjiang, while sends Uyghurs to other provinces for forced labor. by Hu Ke Last July, the government of

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    Experts: New National Security Law Likely to Expand China's Control Over Hong Kong
    Experts: New National Security Law Likely to Expand China's Control Over Hong Kong

    China’s top law-making body is expected to pass a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday – a move that many critics and ordinary Hong Kongers fear will empower the Communist Party...

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    Islamic Symbols Removed from 300+ Hui-Run Businesses in Yunnan
    Islamic Symbols Removed from 300+ Hui-Run Businesses in Yunnan

    Star-and-crescent and other symbols, also writings in Arabic, are purged from shops and restaurants, as the CCP enforces its plan to “sinicize” China’s Muslims. by Hu Ke To achieve its five-year (

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    US Highlights Uyghur Detention Camps in International Torture Victim Message
    US Highlights Uyghur Detention Camps in International Torture Victim Message

    The United States highlighted the detention of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China in remarks honoring worldwide victims of torture Friday, as Uyghur and Tibetan rights groups called on t...

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    Facebook Twitter China: National security law for Hong Kong risks turning city into police state
    Facebook Twitter China: National security law for Hong Kong risks turning city into police state

    China’s national security law for Hong Kong will put everybody in the city at risk of arbitrary detention and unfair trial unless underpinned by measures to guarantee protection of human rights, A...

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    Must ‘Study Xi’ to Have a Future
    Must ‘Study Xi’ to Have a Future

    Young people across China are subjected to patriotic education. Those who refuse to undergo it are in danger of losing opportunities to study or get good jobs. by Tang Zhe On June 15, the birthday

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    After Forced Demolitions, Farmers Left with No Means to Survive
    After Forced Demolitions, Farmers Left with No Means to Survive

    Amid the economic downturn, the CCP deprives farmers of their primary sources of income by destroying pig sheds and gardens. by Lin Yijiang On March 10, amid the peak of the coronavirus outbreak i

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    ‘The Price of My Studies Abroad Was Very High’: Uyghur Former Al Azhar University
    ‘The Price of My Studies Abroad Was Very High’: Uyghur Former Al Azhar University

    Nurehmet Burhan, who was born and raised in Korla (in Chinese, Kuerle), a county-level city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s (XUAR) Bayin’gholin Mongol (Bayinguoleng Menggu) Autonomous P...

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    Canada's Trudeau Rejects Pressure to Release Huawei Executive
    Canada's Trudeau Rejects Pressure to Release Huawei Executive

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Thursday rejected calls from former Canadian parliamentarians and diplomats, as well as the Chinese government, to release executive Meng Wanzhou of China's ...

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    CCP Moves Against Mongolian Language in Inner Mongolia
    CCP Moves Against Mongolian Language in Inner Mongolia

    Mongolian identity and culture are being slowly and silently attacked in what Mongols prefer to call Southern Mongolia. The world needs to pay attention. by Massimo Introvigne Classes in Mongo

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    ‘The Tools Are Available to The Administration’ to Press China on Uyghurs: US Religious Freedom Envoy
    ‘The Tools Are Available to The Administration’ to Press China on Uyghurs: US Religious Freedom Envoy

    Sam Brownback is a lawyer, former United States Senator and former governor of the state of Kansas who has served as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom since February...

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    Mantas Adomėnas: Why Parliamentarians in the World Unite Against the CCP
    Mantas Adomėnas: Why Parliamentarians in the World Unite Against the CCP

    A member of the Lithuanian Parliament, Adomėnas is one of the co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). He tells us why such an alliance is needed. by Massimo Introvigne L

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    China's Virus Tracking Technology Sparks Privacy Concerns
    China's Virus Tracking Technology Sparks Privacy Concerns

    While battling a new cluster of COVID-19 infections, authorities in Beijing have been quick to make use of geo-spatial information, collected through mobile tracking devices in people’s smartphone...

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    Tibet: The CCP Launches a Campaign Against Prayer Flags
    Tibet: The CCP Launches a Campaign Against Prayer Flags

    Nothing is more typical of Tibetan culture and religion than religious banners. They are now being taken down, village after village, as persecution of religion escalates. by Massimo Introvigne

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    Christian Ding Baoying Tortured to Death by CCP in a Detention Center
    Christian Ding Baoying Tortured to Death by CCP in a Detention Center

    Ding Baoying (alias: Chen Yun), female, born on June 25, 1954, was a native of Qiqihar City in Heilongjiang Province, China and later in 1994 relocated to Tangshan City in Hebei Province. In 1987, she...

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    Hong Kong and China: Will the European Union Support Human Rights?
    Hong Kong and China: Will the European Union Support Human Rights?

    Contradictory signals from Brussels. An excellent pro-Hong-Kong resolution has been passed, but the office of the Special Envoy for religious freedom in the world has been canceled by Marco Respinti

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    CCP Persecution Worsens Medical Condition of 21-year-old Christian Liu Jun, Who Dies From Delayed Treatment
    CCP Persecution Worsens Medical Condition of 21-year-old Christian Liu Jun, Who Dies From Delayed Treatment

    Liu Jun (alias), male, born in 1998, a resident of Jiangxi Province, joined The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in 2015. He was always a mature, obedient child who was loyal and honest. In July 2018, he ...

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    Tibet, Tibetan Refugees and the Way Ahead
    Tibet, Tibetan Refugees and the Way Ahead

    While we celebrate the World Refugee Day, a Tibetan scholar reflects on the history and resilience of 150,000 Tibetan refugees living in exile. by Tsewang Gyalpo Arya June 20, 2020 is World Refu...

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    The Church of Almighty God Refugees: Remember Them on World Refugee Day
    The Church of Almighty God Refugees: Remember Them on World Refugee Day

    The world remembers refugees. Do not forget the asylum seekers who were persecuted and tortured in China for their faith. by Rosita Šorytė International legal scholars have noted that the worl

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    Beijing Pressures Critics as Pandemic Returns
    Beijing Pressures Critics as Pandemic Returns

    As Beijing moves to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, authorities have clamped down on citizen journalists. The outbreak detected at a market in the capital last week has led to ...

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    Over 90 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in 2 Days
    Over 90 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in 2 Days

    Arrests were made in May during unified operations in Shanxi Province’s Linfen city after targets were tracked and monitored using mass surveillance systems. by Zhang Feng On May 16, a unified arr

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    China Orders Prayer Flags Taken Down in Tibet in an Assault on Culture, Faith
    China Orders Prayer Flags Taken Down in Tibet in an Assault on Culture, Faith

    Chinese authorities in Tibet have ordered the destruction of prayer flags in many parts of the region in one of China’s most direct assaults to date on visible symbols of Tibetan culture and relig...

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    Is the UK Finally Standing Up for Hong Kong?
    Is the UK Finally Standing Up for Hong Kong?

    After Years of Weak Rhetoric, London Signals Firmer Policy Towards Beijing In recent weeks, the United Kingdom’s “golden relationship” with China has begun to lose its luster. The UK has joined ...

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    CCP Post-George-Floyd Propaganda: Chinese Netizens Strike Back
    CCP Post-George-Floyd Propaganda: Chinese Netizens Strike Back

    Enough is enough: even Chinese social media users tell the CCP that at least in the United States you can protest police brutality. In China, those who protest go to jail, or worse. by Han Sheng

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    “Welfare for Autocrats”: How China Uses Welfare as a Tool for Surveillance
    “Welfare for Autocrats”: How China Uses Welfare as a Tool for Surveillance

    A new book by Jennifer Pan shows how the CCP, under the pretext of “elimination of poverty,” uses its “Dibao” livelihood guarantee program to better watch over political and religious dissidents. b...

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    Christian Died of Lung Cancer Caused by CCP’s Mistreatment in Detention in Zhejiang
    Christian Died of Lung Cancer Caused by CCP’s Mistreatment in Detention in Zhejiang

    Zhang Meijuan (alias), a female born in 1973, was a resident of Zhejiang Province. She was a Christian from The Church of Almighty God (CAG). Because of her faith, she was arrested and detained by the...

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    Uyghur Women Persecuted: Will the Feminists Support Them?
    Uyghur Women Persecuted: Will the Feminists Support Them?

    Uyghur women are raped, compelled to marry Han Chinese, detained in the dreaded transformation through education camps, and killed. Why do Western feminists ignore their tragedy? by Rushan Abbas ...

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    Mistreatment and Forced Labor in Custody Deteriorate Condition of Ill Christians
    Mistreatment and Forced Labor in Custody Deteriorate Condition of Ill Christians

    After some seriously ill Christians are arrested and detained because of their faith, they are not only deprived of rights to medical care, but are subjected to maltreatment and forced labor. “One ...

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    US Lawmakers Call For Answers on Zoom Shut-down of Dissident Accounts
    US Lawmakers Call For Answers on Zoom Shut-down of Dissident Accounts

    More than a dozen U.S. lawmakers took Zoom to task and demanded detailed explanation Friday after the California-based teleconferencing company admitted to suspending the accounts of three Chinese...

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    Protestant House Church Raided For Second Time in China's Xiamen
    Protestant House Church Raided For Second Time in China's Xiamen

    Authorities in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen have raided a Protestant house church for the second time in two months, RFA has learned. Uniformed urban management police, or chengguan,...

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    For China’s Rights Defenders, Fighting the State Leads to Prison
    For China’s Rights Defenders, Fighting the State Leads to Prison

    A law that the CCP uses widely to silence those protesting its autocratic rule lists 32 instances when petitioning the government may result in hefty sentences. by Han Sheng Numerous media outlets

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    U.S. Department of State’s Religious Freedom Report: The CCP Routinely Abuses, Tortures, and Kills Members of All Religions
    U.S. Department of State’s Religious Freedom Report: The CCP Routinely Abuses, Tortures, and Kills Members of All Religions

    The most comprehensive official document ever published on religious persecution in China quotes Bitter Winter 74 times. by Massimo Introvigne Sobering but enlightening reading In China, religi

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    Hong Kong to Prosecute Media Mogul Jimmy Lai, Organizers Over Tiananmen Vigil
    Hong Kong to Prosecute Media Mogul Jimmy Lai, Organizers Over Tiananmen Vigil

    Authorities in Hong Kong will prosecute four prominent pro-democracy figures including media mogul Jimmy Lai for their involvement in a public commemoration of the Tiananmen massacre anniversary o...

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    COVID-19: Perhaps It Was Around Since August 2019—and the CCP Knew It
    COVID-19: Perhaps It Was Around Since August 2019—and the CCP Knew It

    A new study by Harvard Medical School crossed satellite images and Internet queries to come to this dreadful conclusion. by Marco Respinti We at Bitter Winter have been among the first to rais

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    Riot Police Charge at Protesters Marking First Anniversary of Hong Kong Anti-Government Movement
    Riot Police Charge at Protesters Marking First Anniversary of Hong Kong Anti-Government Movement

    Riot police officers charged at thousands of protesters who defied a police ban to mark the first anniversary of the city’s anti-government movement on Tuesday evening. People began gathering a...

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    China’s Health Codes Increase Population Surveillance
    China’s Health Codes Increase Population Surveillance

    The CCP regime enforced mobile apps to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which will likely outlive the pandemic and will be used to expand automated social control. by Lin Yijiang China’s health cod

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    Hong Kong Protests Seen as 'Threat to National Security': China
    Hong Kong Protests Seen as 'Threat to National Security': China

    The ruling Chinese Communist Party is imposing a draconian new sedition and subversion law on Hong Kong because Beijing views recent protests in the city as a threat to national security, a top of...

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    Crosses Taken off 26 Three-Self Churches in a Jiangxi County
    Crosses Taken off 26 Three-Self Churches in a Jiangxi County

    As soon as coronavirus lockdowns were lifted, government officials in Duchang county resumed crackdown campaigns on places of worship. by Wang Yong As reported by Bitter Winter, numerous state-run

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    In Hong Kong, the Spirit of Tiananmen Lives On
    In Hong Kong, the Spirit of Tiananmen Lives On

    Challenging the CCP’s prohibition, a massive democratic crowd gathered in Victoria Park on June 4. Bitter Winter publishes exclusive images of what happened. by Marco Respinti Safety measures ag...

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    Tiananmen Mothers Win 'Women of Courage' Award on Massacre Anniversary
    Tiananmen Mothers Win 'Women of Courage' Award on Massacre Anniversary

    Relatives of those who died in the 1989 massacre that ended weeks of mass, student-led protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square have been awarded a Women of Courage Award by the State Department on ...

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    Hong Kong Legislature Passes Controversial National Anthem Law
    Hong Kong Legislature Passes Controversial National Anthem Law

    Hong Kong’s legislature Thursday passed a controversial law to forbid ridicule of the Chinese national anthem amid widespread opposition. The move came on the 31st anniversary of the crackdown ...

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    Truth About Epidemic Hidden Behind ‘Positive Energy’ News
    Truth About Epidemic Hidden Behind ‘Positive Energy’ News

    China’s propaganda agencies busily create “warm news,” propagating “personal sacrifice” and “government’s achievements,” to manipulate public opinion. by Bai Lin With the subsiding coronav

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    Tiananmen Mothers Call on Beijing to Make Public Details of 1989 Massacre
    Tiananmen Mothers Call on Beijing to Make Public Details of 1989 Massacre

    Relatives of people killed in Beijing when Chinese leaders deployed People's Liberation Army (PLA) tanks and machine guns to end several weeks of student-led protests on Tiananmen Square in 1989 h...

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    Hong Kong Tiananmen Vigil Officially Banned
    Hong Kong Tiananmen Vigil Officially Banned

    HONG KONG - Hong Kong police on Monday formally banned an annual candlelit vigil to mourn the victims of the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement that has taken place uninterrupt...

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    Attorney Mark Tarrant: Fighting for Drew Pavlou, Against the CCP’s “Nazi Tactics”
    Attorney Mark Tarrant: Fighting for Drew Pavlou, Against the CCP’s “Nazi Tactics”

    The Australian lawyer who represents the student expelled from University of Queensland in his lawsuit against the Chinese Consul-General in Brisbane speaks out. by Massimo Introvigne Mark Tar

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    China Steps up Propaganda in Support of National Security Law For Hong Kong
    China Steps up Propaganda in Support of National Security Law For Hong Kong

    The ruling Chinese Communist Party stepped up its international propaganda drive with a celebrity signature campaign in support of draconian sedition laws for Hong Kong, as the city's police banne...

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    China’s Religious Persecution Wrecks People’s Lives
    China’s Religious Persecution Wrecks People’s Lives

    Following CCP’s relentless crackdowns against The Church of Almighty God, numerous families are shattered as their loved ones are sent to prison for their faith. by Deng Changlin  The Office o

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    Hong Kong, the darkest hour has yet to come
    Hong Kong, the darkest hour has yet to come

    Bitter Winter publishes exclusive footage of the police repression. “Is there any country welcoming Hong Kong people now?” by Marco Respinti On May 28, China imposed a new security law on Hong

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    The Xinjiang Class: How the CCP Tries to “Convert” the Uyghurs—and Fails
    The Xinjiang Class: How the CCP Tries to “Convert” the Uyghurs—and Fails

    A book by Timothy Grose examines Beijing’s project of taking Uyghur students to boarding schools far away from Xinjiang to “sinicize” them. by Massimo Introvigne “Ethnic engineering” has long

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    Tibetan Students, State Workers Barred From Religious Events in Lhasa
    Tibetan Students, State Workers Barred From Religious Events in Lhasa

    Chinese authorities are closely watching government employees and students in Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa during the Buddhist holy month of Saga Dawa, forbidding them from participating in trad...

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    Hong Kong: What Is Really Happening
    Hong Kong: What Is Really Happening

    British expert Benedict Rogers tells Bitter Winter how China is moving to destroy Hong Kong’s basic freedoms – and what we can do about it. by Massimo Introvigne Benedict Rogers, a London-base

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    300+ Police Officers Demolish a Tibetan Buddhist Temple
    300+ Police Officers Demolish a Tibetan Buddhist Temple

    The CCP continues to impose severe restrictions on religious practices of Tibetan Buddhists, destroying temples and eliminating traditional symbols across China. by Lu Xiaojing To prevent the spre

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    Hong Kong is ‘No Longer Autonomous,’ Pompeo Tells US Congress After China Intervention
    Hong Kong is ‘No Longer Autonomous,’ Pompeo Tells US Congress After China Intervention

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday he had told the U.S. Congress that Beijing’s imposition of a draconian national security law in Hong Kong show that the former British colony is not a...

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    Members of Banned Churches Imprisoned, Some for 15 Years
    Members of Banned Churches Imprisoned, Some for 15 Years

    Believers who resist being managed by China’s communist regime are often arrested and interrogated, despite their elderly age and declining health. by Lu An Many Christian groups in China

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    Scarred for Life: Interrogated, Tortured, Imprisoned
    Scarred for Life: Interrogated, Tortured, Imprisoned

    A member of The Church of Almighty God, arrested for his faith, was tortured for six days before he was sentenced to six years in prison. by Deng Changlin Zhao Gang (pseudonym), a member of The Ch

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    “Inside The Church of Almighty God”: A New Book Tells It Like It Is
    “Inside The Church of Almighty God”: A New Book Tells It Like It Is

    Oxford University Press publishes Massimo Introvigne’s survey of the most persecuted religious movement in China by Ruth Ingram Viciously persecuted, tortured and slandered by a catalogue of s

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    Riot Police Fire Tear Gas, Water Cannon at Angry Hong Kong Crowds
    Riot Police Fire Tear Gas, Water Cannon at Angry Hong Kong Crowds

    Hong Kong police fired tear gas, water cannon and pepper balls at separate groups totaling thousands of people who came out in protest at plans by the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing to ...

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    China's Push to Impose National Security Law in Hong Kong Draws Fire from Critics, Locals
    China's Push to Impose National Security Law in Hong Kong Draws Fire from Critics, Locals

    HONG KONG - China’s plan to impose a national security law on Hong Kong to prevent and punish acts of “secession, subversion or terrorism activities” that threaten national security has drawn fire...

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    CCP Stepping Up the Pace of Uyghur Forced Labor into Inner China
    CCP Stepping Up the Pace of Uyghur Forced Labor into Inner China

    Beijing is ramping up transfers of Uyghurs into forced labor outside of their region, according to an Australian think tank set up to probe human rights violations in Xinjiang. by Ruth Ingram

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    China: Dangerous national security law plan is fundamental attack on human rights in Hong Kong
    China: Dangerous national security law plan is fundamental attack on human rights in Hong Kong

    Responding to the Chinese government’s proposal to enact new national security legislation for Hong Kong, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and South East Asia, Joshua Rose...

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    Extradition Treaty That Could Deport Uyghurs From Turkey to China Faces Uncertainty in Ankara
    Extradition Treaty That Could Deport Uyghurs From Turkey to China Faces Uncertainty in Ankara

    An extradition treaty that could be used to forcibly deport Uyghurs from Turkey to China where they are at risk of persecution faces an uncertain fate in parliament, according to Turkish oppositio...

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    Churches with Foreign Ties Suppressed, Pastors Deported
    Churches with Foreign Ties Suppressed, Pastors Deported

    The CCP treats any link the Chinese believers have with abroad as “foreign infiltration” that threatens its regime. Any such tie is investigated and severed. by Li Mingxuan Last year, the 

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    China Gears Up to 'Perfect Hong Kong's Legal System' With Draconian Security Law
    China Gears Up to 'Perfect Hong Kong's Legal System' With Draconian Security Law

    China on Thursday said it was gearing up to "perfect the legal system" of Hong Kong with national security legislation that will outlaw speech and actions considered subversive, pro-independence o...

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    The Fight for Hong Kong
    The Fight for Hong Kong

    By Gina Goh On November 17, 2019, Hong Kong police laid siege to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As a result, the once peaceful univer­sity was trans­formed into a battlefield, trapping m...

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    China’s Social Media Platforms—Tools of Religious Persecution
    China’s Social Media Platforms—Tools of Religious Persecution

    The Chinese government is using WeChat, a popular multi-purpose social media and messaging app, for mass surveillance, including to monitor people of faith. by Wan Zixin In July 2019, the poli

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    With Lockdown Lifted, Crackdowns on Churches Intensify
    With Lockdown Lifted, Crackdowns on Churches Intensify

    The minute coronavirus prevention restrictions were eased, state-run churches in Jiangxi Province felt the resurgence of onslaughts. Many were closed for good. by Zhang Feng During one week in Apr

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    Teachers Forced to Renounce Faith, Become CCP’s Political Pawns
    Teachers Forced to Renounce Faith, Become CCP’s Political Pawns

    To warrant “proper” indoctrination of students, China’s regime probes and punishes religious teachers, ensures that not a single faith-related word is said in class. by Han Sheng A kindergarten te

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    25 Years After ‘Disappearing’ Tibetan Panchen Lama, China Is No Nearer to Its Goal
    25 Years After ‘Disappearing’ Tibetan Panchen Lama, China Is No Nearer to Its Goal

    May 17 marks 25 years since Chinese security forces took away a 6-year-old Tibetan child, Gendun Choeki Nyima, and his parents from a remote town in Tibet. They have not been heard from since. Tod...

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    China Anti-Crime Campaign in Tibet Used to Punish Critics, Dalai Lama Supporters: HRW
    China Anti-Crime Campaign in Tibet Used to Punish Critics, Dalai Lama Supporters: HRW

    A campaign launched two years ago by Chinese authorities in Tibet to combat crime is also targeting political dissidents, critics of corruption, and activists promoting use of the Tibetan language...

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    China’s Muslims Forced to Eat Pork During Ramadan
    China’s Muslims Forced to Eat Pork During Ramadan

    The CCP continues to eliminate Muslim culture and Islamic faith by prohibiting people from observing traditional practices during the holy month of Ramadan. by Yuan Wei A government inside

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    Uyghurs Urge Other States to Copy US Sanctions Bill For Chinese XUAR Abuses
    Uyghurs Urge Other States to Copy US Sanctions Bill For Chinese XUAR Abuses

    The U.S. Senate passed a bill Thursday that would sanction Chinese government officials responsible for arbitrary incarceration, forced labor and other abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Reg...

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    Prisoners of Faith Forced to Make Goods for Foreign Markets
    Prisoners of Faith Forced to Make Goods for Foreign Markets

    A member of The Church of Almighty God recounts her experience serving a five-year sentence for her faith in prison where she was subjected to forced labor. by Yuan Wei A member of The Chu

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    CAG Members Arrested and Tortured During Lockdown
    CAG Members Arrested and Tortured During Lockdown

    Members of The Church of Almighty God recount their ordeals trying to evade CCP’s persecution amid the coronavirus outbreak. by Yang Guang’an The Church of Almighty God (CAG), the single most-

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    ‘Losing Him Has Been an Attack on Our People’: Remembering Uyghur Religious Teacher Abdulahad Mahsum
    ‘Losing Him Has Been an Attack on Our People’: Remembering Uyghur Religious Teacher Abdulahad Mahsum

    Abdulahad Mahsum was a prominent Uyghur religious figure who died in 2018 while detained at one of the vast system of internment camps in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)...

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    Released Chinese Rights Lawyer Will Try to Overturn Conviction
    Released Chinese Rights Lawyer Will Try to Overturn Conviction

    Released Chinese rights attorney Wang Quanzhang says he plans to take legal action to overturn his subversion conviction, for which he served nearly five years in prison. Wang was reunited with...

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    Mass Surveillance and 5G in Tibet: Between Oppression and Espionage
    Mass Surveillance and 5G in Tibet: Between Oppression and Espionage

    Tibetans are continuously controlled through camera networks and artificial intelligence. Now, Huawei’s highest 5G base station on Mount Everest will also favor international cyber-espionage. by Tenz

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    Virus and the Chinese Dream: The CCP Wants to Watch All Citizens 24/7—and You Too
    Virus and the Chinese Dream: The CCP Wants to Watch All Citizens 24/7—and You Too

    While we discuss data, 5G, and tracing apps, a book by Kai Strittmatter on how the CCP dreams to keep the entire world under surveillance may help. by Massimo Introvigne A timely book The

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    The Police Region of Xinjiang: Checkpoints, Camps, and Fear
    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. by Chang Xin  “There are security checkpoints ever...

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    Hong Kong: Small Protests Renew Calls for Autonomy
    Hong Kong: Small Protests Renew Calls for Autonomy

    Police pursued pro-democracy protesters in shopping malls in Hong Kong Sunday, after permission for a Mother’s Day march was denied. As the coronavirus outbreak subsides in Hong Kong, more prot...

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    Fighting the Pandemic at the Cost of Human Rights
    Fighting the Pandemic at the Cost of Human Rights

    The CCP claims to have won a “great victory” against COVID-19 thanks to “great leadership” and the socialist system. Those who took part in the fight disagree. by Han Sheng  Amid the coronavirus p

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    'Don't Forget Chen Qiushi,' Friend of Chinese Journalist Says
    'Don't Forget Chen Qiushi,' Friend of Chinese Journalist Says

    A friend of Chen Qiushi, who reported on Hong Kong democracy protests and COVID-19 before going missing February 6, has urged the world to not forget the citizen journalist's plight. Chen had b...

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    Shouters’ Members Arrested, Preacher Imprisoned for His Faith
    Shouters’ Members Arrested, Preacher Imprisoned for His Faith

    Believers of this banned Christian group suffer severe persecution and are often sent to jail, where they are indoctrinated and subjected to forced labor. by Li Mingxuan Religious groups that

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    Sentencing, Arrest of Activists Are Signs of China's Unrelenting Crackdown
    Sentencing, Arrest of Activists Are Signs of China's Unrelenting Crackdown

    China's recent sentencing of a blogger and its arrest of a veteran rights activist indicate that Beijing is determined to continue silencing any critics of the ruling party and government. Liu ...

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    Australian University Sets Expulsion Hearing Date For Student Critical of China's Communist Party
    Australian University Sets Expulsion Hearing Date For Student Critical of China's Communist Party

    An Australian student threatened with expulsion after he was highly critical of Beijing has been warned that he could also be removed from the University of Queensland (UQ)'s student senate later ...

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    Tibetan Man Dies After Years of Ill Health Following Torture in Prison
    Tibetan Man Dies After Years of Ill Health Following Torture in Prison

    A former Tibetan political prisoner has died after suffering years of poor health following his release from a prison term served for challenging Chinese rule in Tibetan areas, Tibetan sources say...

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    Numerous State-Run Church Venues Shut Down in Late 2019
    Numerous State-Run Church Venues Shut Down in Late 2019

    The government harassed these Protestant places of worship on a variety of pretexts: from “disturbing neighbors” to “supporting protests in Hong Kong.” by Ye Ling The Religious Affairs Bureau of F

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    ‘What Are They Trying To Hide?’ Uyghurs Ask of China's Media Curbs in Xinjiang
    ‘What Are They Trying To Hide?’ Uyghurs Ask of China's Media Curbs in Xinjiang

    China’s tightening curbs on media and speech freedoms compound the hardships of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where authorities stop at nothing to prevent reporting on t...

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    Xinjiang Students Mandated to Love CCP, Resist ‘US Interference’
    Xinjiang Students Mandated to Love CCP, Resist ‘US Interference’

    Universities hold allegiance ceremonies for teachers and students, make them criticize countries that raise concerns over the mistreatment of Uyghurs. by Chang Xin A student from inland Ch

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    Chinese Authorities Torment Activist’s Dying Mother
    Chinese Authorities Torment Activist’s Dying Mother

    Government Should End Harassment Immediately Chinese authorities have trumpeted their success in combating the Covid-19 pandemic, asserting their deep commitments to health care and the rule of law...

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    US Religious Freedoms Panel Urges Sanctions on China Over Violations in Xinjiang
    US Religious Freedoms Panel Urges Sanctions on China Over Violations in Xinjiang

    A U.S. bipartisan commission called on Tuesday for sanctions against entities deemed responsible for the persecution of Muslims in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and for the coun...

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    Places of Worship Targeted During Coronavirus Outbreak
    Places of Worship Targeted During Coronavirus Outbreak

    As the deadly virus was spreading through China, the government continued cracking down on temples and churches, destroying buildings and harassing believers. by Li Pei On March 6, the Hall of Gre

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    Rights Group Details Litany of Police Violence, Abuses During Hong Kong Protests
    Rights Group Details Litany of Police Violence, Abuses During Hong Kong Protests

    A Hong Kong-based human rights group has detailed a litany of police violence and abuse of power during last year's protests in a report to the U.K. parliament, as sporadic protests continue in th...

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    73 CAG Members Sentenced to Prison in Hunan and Jiangsu
    73 CAG Members Sentenced to Prison in Hunan and Jiangsu

    The Church of Almighty God remains one of the primary targets of China’s religious persecution, as its members are given hefty sentences for practicing their faith. by Yang Guang’an  The Church of

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    House Church Pastor Arrested for Refusing to Join Three-Self Church
    House Church Pastor Arrested for Refusing to Join Three-Self Church

    04/27/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – ICC reports on April 14 that pastor Zhao Huaiguo, the founder of Bethel church, was arrested on April 2 in China’s Hunan province, after being ...

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    Emrati Princess Hend Faisal Al Qassimi Voices Rare Muslim Support For Persecuted Uyghurs
    Emrati Princess Hend Faisal Al Qassimi Voices Rare Muslim Support For Persecuted Uyghurs

    Princess Hend Faisal Al Qassimi, a member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) royal family, took to Twitter on Sunday to issue a rare voice of support from the Muslim world for ethnic Uyghurs enduri...

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    Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Returns Home after Tortuous Journey
    Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Returns Home after Tortuous Journey

    BEIJING - Chinese authorities allowed a leading human rights lawyer to reunite with his family late Monday, ending more than four years of detention, most of it without communications with his fri...

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    China: Free Covid-19 Activists, ‘Citizen Journalists’
    China: Free Covid-19 Activists, ‘Citizen Journalists’

    Arbitrary Detentions, ‘Disappearances,’ for Sharing Coronavirus Information (New York) – The Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release five activists and citizen journalist...

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    China’s Appointment to UN Human Rights Council Panel Shocks the World
    China’s Appointment to UN Human Rights Council Panel Shocks the World

    China has been appointed as a member of a human rights council panel that plays an important role in picking human rights investigators who will be tasked with monitoring cases of enforced disappear...

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    CAG Christian Liu Hua, Paralyzed as a Result of Cruel Torture by CCP, Dies After Enduring a Prolonged Period of Harassment
    CAG Christian Liu Hua, Paralyzed as a Result of Cruel Torture by CCP, Dies After Enduring a Prolonged Period of Harassment

    Liu Hua (alias), born May 1950, was a man from Guyuan City in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He began believing in the Lord Jesus in 1992 and then entered into The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in ...

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    Believers Tortured to Renounce Their Faith in Xinjiang’s Camps
    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.” by Xiang Yi “In the camp

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    China Urged to Free Tibet’s Missing Panchen Lama on Eve of 31st Birthday
    China Urged to Free Tibet’s Missing Panchen Lama on Eve of 31st Birthday

    By Joshua Lipes On the eve of the Panchen Lama’s 31st birthday, religious freedom advocates called on China Friday to release the second most well-known religious figure in Tibet, believed to b...

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    U.N. Human Rights Council: More than 100 Organizations Protest China’s Selection as a Member of the Consultative Group
    U.N. Human Rights Council: More than 100 Organizations Protest China’s Selection as a Member of the Consultative Group

    Along with Venezuela, Pakistan, Eritrea and Qatar, China will serve one year in the exclusive body of five persons who will select United Nations human rights investigators. by Marco Respinti 

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    Interview: 'They Are Still Restricting My Freedom,' Says Lawyer Wang Quanzhang
    Interview: 'They Are Still Restricting My Freedom,' Says Lawyer Wang Quanzhang

    Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was released from Shandong's Linyi Prison at the end of a four-and-a-half year jail term handed down on Jan. 28, 2019 by the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People'...

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    US Holocaust Museum Adds China to List of Case Studies Over Mass Internment of Uyghurs
    US Holocaust Museum Adds China to List of Case Studies Over Mass Internment of Uyghurs

    The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHHM) on Thursday added China to its list of 15 country case studies for Beijing’s mass internment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), ...

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    Two House Churches in China Raided by Local Authorities
    Two House Churches in China Raided by Local Authorities

    04/23/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On April 19, a house church in China’s Xiamen, a city in southeastern Fujian province, was raided by local authorities during their Sunday serv...

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    Bitter Blow for Tibetan Mother-tongue Education
    Bitter Blow for Tibetan Mother-tongue Education

    Sichuan Authorities Announce Shift to Chinese Language Instruction In early April, schools in Ngawa [Ch.: Aba] prefecture, a largely Tibetan region of China’s Sichuan province, reopened following t...

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    Arabic Script, Islamic Symbols Ordered to Be Removed
    Arabic Script, Islamic Symbols Ordered to Be Removed

    Shops and restaurants run by Hui people across China are losing an integral part of Muslim cultural identity, as the CCP pushes forward its “sinicization” policy. by Wang Anyang In October 2019, o

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    Surveillance State Makes It Tough for Pro-Hong Kong Supporters in Canada
    Surveillance State Makes It Tough for Pro-Hong Kong Supporters in Canada

      The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains an extensive surveillance network in the West that identifies and monitors people who are considered a risk to the regime. A large number of t...

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    A Church in Zhengzhou Receives Written Decision of Disbandment
    A Church in Zhengzhou Receives Written Decision of Disbandment

    04/19/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On April 13, a church in the capital of east-central China’s Henan province received a disbandment notice from the government, calling its religiou...

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    Released Chinese Lawyer Barred from Returning Home after Quarantine Period Ends
    Released Chinese Lawyer Barred from Returning Home after Quarantine Period Ends

    HONG KONG - A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who was released two weeks ago after spending 4 ½  years in prison for subversion has been prohibited from reuniting with his family for the sec...

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    Australian Student Activist Faces Expulsion After Criticism From Chinese Diplomat
    Australian Student Activist Faces Expulsion After Criticism From Chinese Diplomat

    An Australian student is facing expulsion by the University of Queensland after he publicly questioned the school's close relationship with China and was termed an "anti-China separatist" by a Chi...

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    Hong Kong Police Arrest Martin Lee, 13 Other Pro-Democracy Figures
    Hong Kong Police Arrest Martin Lee, 13 Other Pro-Democracy Figures

    Police in Hong Kong arrested 14 pro-democracy figures on Saturday, including Democratic Party founder Martin Lee, rights lawyer Albert Ho and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, for "illegal assembly" in conn...

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    Refugees from The Church of Almighty God: Hope from the Italian Supreme Court
    Refugees from The Church of Almighty God: Hope from the Italian Supreme Court

    Two decisions canceled the refusal of asylum by courts in Milan, asking them to reconsider the applications. by Massimo Introvigne   In Italy, more than one thousand requests from asyl

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    Cross of Three-Self Church in Anhui Province Removed
    Cross of Three-Self Church in Anhui Province Removed

    04/17/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On April 15, a state-sanctioned church’s cross was forcibly removed by the local authorities in China’s Anhui province. According to a video sha...

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    How China used technology to combat COVID-19 – and tighten its grip on citizens
    How China used technology to combat COVID-19 – and tighten its grip on citizens

    By June Ko, Chinese editor Welcome to a world where the government knows which cities you’ve visited, who you’ve taken train journeys with – even which films you watched at the cinema. This ...

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    CCP Assimilates Uyghurs by Banning Their Culture and Religion
    CCP Assimilates Uyghurs by Banning Their Culture and Religion

    The Chinese government has been eradicating Xinjiang Uyghurs’ customs and traditions by prohibiting the use of their language, forcing them to eat pork. by Chang Xin Forced to eat pork A

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    Church of Almighty God Members Tortured in Xinjiang’s Camps

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    Persecuted Uyghurs’ Stories Mirror the Facts in Karakax List

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    End The Persecution of The Church of Almighty God Now!

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    Malaysia Appoints University Institute to Probe China’s Alleged Abuses Against Uyghurs

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    Being Christian in Xinjiang: Visitors’ Observations

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    Agents Cultivated to Infiltrate The Church of Almighty God

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    Believer Returns Disabled After 7 Years of Torment in Prison

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    Wife of Jailed Chinese Rights Law Wins Human Rights Prize

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    20 Bitter Winter Reporters Vanished in the Air

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    China Detains Activists Heading to U.S. Human Rights Event

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    Uyghur Act Passed by the U.S. House: Good, But What’s Next?

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    Chinese Church Leader Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

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    USCIRF “Adopts” 35 Chinese Prisoners—25 Are Members of The Church of Almighty God

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    Dozens of Hong Kong Christians Receive Threatening Online Messages

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    Xinjiang Authorities Undermine Muslim Abstention From Pork in Bid to Assimilate Uyghurs

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    Xinjiang ‘Pair Up’ Campaign Highlights Power Imbalance Between Chinese ‘Relatives,’ Uyghur Hosts

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    Chinese Pastor to Face Trial Without Representation
    Chinese Pastor to Face Trial Without Representation

    11/19/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Early Rain Covenant Church Pastor, Wang Yi, has been in custody since December 9, 2018. He is expected to officially start his trial soon. Howev...

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    Chinese Bishop 'On The Run' After Pressure to Join Beijing's Catholic Church: Report
    Chinese Bishop 'On The Run' After Pressure to Join Beijing's Catholic Church: Report

    Catholic bishop Guo Xijin is on the run from Chinese police after refusing to bring his church into a Catholic association approved by the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Guo, 61, fled the custody ...

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    112 Rally in Seoul: Christians Expose the CCP’s Lies and Tyranny in Support of Hong Kong People
    112 Rally in Seoul: Christians Expose the CCP’s Lies and Tyranny in Support of Hong Kong People

    To express support for the Emergency Call for Aid and Autonomy Rally in Hong Kong, several local organizations came together to hold a Stand With Hong Kong march on Hongdae Street in Seoul, South Kore

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    People of Faith Punished for Traveling Abroad, Even Years Ago
    People of Faith Punished for Traveling Abroad, Even Years Ago

    In the name of resisting “foreign religious infiltration,” the CCP prevents believers from going abroad and having any contact with overseas groups or individuals. by Li Guang Religions groups

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    Shanxi: 135 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in 2 Days
    Shanxi: 135 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in 2 Days

    Captured during an operation against China’s largest Christian new religious movement on September 9-10, 98 believers remain in detention and are indoctrinated. by Zhang Feng On Septembe

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    Chinese Bishop Targeted in Church Detachment Strategy
    Chinese Bishop Targeted in Church Detachment Strategy

    11/13/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Bishop Vincenzo Guo Xijin of Fujian is currently being pressured and pursued by the Chinese government to sign documentation associating himself wi...

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    China Diplomat’s Article on Tibet ‘Misleading’: Exile Government
    China Diplomat’s Article on Tibet ‘Misleading’: Exile Government

    A recent article by a senior Chinese diplomat that says Tibetans enjoy religious freedom and a happy life under Beijing’s rule is misleading and untrue, and distorts historical facts to support a ...

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    Christian Magazine Forced to Sinicize Biblical Imagery
    Christian Magazine Forced to Sinicize Biblical Imagery

    11/09/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – Since January 2019, China’s state-sanctioned Christian magazine, Heavenly Wind, has published sinicized biblical artwork on its cover. Chinese auth...

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    Inside the Shenzhen Family Suicide (III): CCP’s Nazi-Style Propaganda
    Inside the Shenzhen Family Suicide (III): CCP’s Nazi-Style Propaganda

    The third in a series of three articles about an incident used by CCP propaganda to justify its persecution of The Church of Almighty God. by Li Bei Two of the deceased in the Shenzhen family suicid

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    70 Years of Oppression Is Enough! Multiple Countries Denounce CCP Tyranny
    70 Years of Oppression Is Enough! Multiple Countries Denounce CCP Tyranny

    October 1st, 2019, the 70th anniversary of the CCP usurping political power in China, was celebrated by the CCP with great fanfare. A concurrent march was held in Hong Kong to memorialize the day of t

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    Inside the Shenzhen Family Suicide (II): Political Driving Force Behind Fake Case
    Inside the Shenzhen Family Suicide (II): Political Driving Force Behind Fake Case

    The second in a series of three articles about an incident used by CCP propaganda to justify its persecution of The Church of Almighty God. by Li Bei As we have seen in the first article i

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    Inside the Shenzhen Family Suicide (I): Fake News with Countless Holes
    Inside the Shenzhen Family Suicide (I): Fake News with Countless Holes

    The first in a series of three articles about an incident used by CCP propaganda to justify its persecution of The Church of Almighty God. By Li Bei Manufacturing rumors, creating fake new

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    Chinese Christians Harassed for Purchasing Christian Books Online
    Chinese Christians Harassed for Purchasing Christian Books Online

    11/06/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – For Chinese Christians who are purchasing Christian books through WeChat (instant messaging App) online shop, now they are facing risks of being in...

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    China Named Worst Abuser of Internet Freedom in Freedom House Report
    China Named Worst Abuser of Internet Freedom in Freedom House Report

    China has been the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the fourth consecutive year, while Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia were not far behind, according to a Freedom House report published ...

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    Male Chinese ‘Relatives’ Assigned to Uyghur Homes Co-sleep With Female ‘Hosts’
    Male Chinese ‘Relatives’ Assigned to Uyghur Homes Co-sleep With Female ‘Hosts’

    Male Han Chinese “relatives” assigned to monitor the homes of Uyghur families in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) regularly sleep in the same beds as the wives of men det...

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    30 Believers Sentenced to Long Terms in Prison
    30 Believers Sentenced to Long Terms in Prison

    Two courts in Sichuan sentenced a group of Church of Almighty God members to prison – from four and a half to 11 years – and punished them with exorbitant fines. by Yao Zhangjin On September 11, t

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    Two Dozen UN Member States Condemn China’s Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
    Two Dozen UN Member States Condemn China’s Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

    China’s treatment of ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) drew major criticism from 23 members of the United Nations Tuesday as they backed a British statement condemning...

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    At Least 150 Detainees Have Died in One Xinjiang Internment Camp: Police Officer
    At Least 150 Detainees Have Died in One Xinjiang Internment Camp: Police Officer

    At least 150 people have died over the course of six months while detained at an internment camp for mainly ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according ...

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    Solidarity With Hong Kong! Anti-Chinazi Protests Outside Chinese Embassy in US
    Solidarity With Hong Kong! Anti-Chinazi Protests Outside Chinese Embassy in US

    On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the CCP regime, marches and gatherings were held in cities across the globe to support Hong Kong and protest against CCP tyranny, including a gathering in front o

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    Global Solidarity with Hong Kong: Persecuted Christians Join Anti-CCP Tyranny Protests
    Global Solidarity with Hong Kong: Persecuted Christians Join Anti-CCP Tyranny Protests

    September 28-29, 2019, a series of Global Anti-Totalitarianism Rallies were held across the world, in 24 countries and 65 cities. A number of Christians persecuted by the CCP who have fled China also

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    Uyghur Man Taken Into Custody in Egypt, May be Sent Back to China, Friends Fear
    Uyghur Man Taken Into Custody in Egypt, May be Sent Back to China, Friends Fear

    A Uyghur man sent back to Cairo this week after trying to enter Saudi Arabia has disappeared in Egyptian custody, amid fears he may now be forcibly returned to China, family members say. Sidiqu...

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    Ningbo House Church to be Managed by Local Government
    Ningbo House Church to be Managed by Local Government

    10/25/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – A house church in China’s Ningbo, Zhejiang province, received a notice that the church will soon be managed by the local government. According t...

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    Imprisoned Chinese House Church Member Released
    Imprisoned Chinese House Church Member Released

    10/24/2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on October 22, Gou Zhongcan from Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Sichuan...

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    Hong Kong Formally Withdraws Extradition Bill
    Hong Kong Formally Withdraws Extradition Bill

    10/23/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – On October 23, Hong Kong’s legislature formally withdrew the extradition bill that led the autonomous region into a four month period of ...

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    African Students Excluded from China’s Churches
    African Students Excluded from China’s Churches

      10/20/2019 Africa (International Christian Concern) – African international students are being denied and excluded from worshipping in China’s Christian churches, reportedly to “prevent ...

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    German Human Rights Activist Appeals for Protection of Christians from CCP Tyranny
    German Human Rights Activist Appeals for Protection of Christians from CCP Tyranny

    On October 1, 2019, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a grand celebration to mark its 70th usurpation anniversary, while a national day protest march took place in Hong Kong. On the same day, the

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    Asylum for CAG Christians Takes Center Stage at 2019 OSCE HDIM Conference
    Asylum for CAG Christians Takes Center Stage at 2019 OSCE HDIM Conference

    From September 16 to 27, Europe’s largest annual human rights and democracy conference—the OSCE’s Human Dimension Implementation Meeting was held in Warsaw; this year’s themes include “freedom of reli

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    Xi Jinping Thought Invades Religious Venues
    Xi Jinping Thought Invades Religious Venues

    For the CCP, it’s not enough to replace the Ten Commandments with the president’s portraits and quotations. It is now mandatory for believers to study his work. by Li Guang For members of the Chin

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    African Christian Students Can’t Practice Their Faith in China
    African Christian Students Can’t Practice Their Faith in China

    They are not allowed to have their places of worship or join Chinese. Besides, they have been placed under surveillance and are targeted in secret investigations. by Gu Xi CCP’s vigorous crack

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    Support Hong Kong! European Groups Protest Against CCP Tyranny
    Support Hong Kong! European Groups Protest Against CCP Tyranny

    From September 12-15, 2019, people from all over Europe including human rights activists, Uyghurs, Tibetans, pro-democracy activists, and Christians from The Church of Almighty God (CAG) held gatherin

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    Tiananmen Liquor Seller, Family Forced Out of Home in China's Sichuan
    Tiananmen Liquor Seller, Family Forced Out of Home in China's Sichuan

    A man recently released after serving jail time in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan for selling liquor with references to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre on the label has been ordered to l...

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    US Secretary of State Pompeo Raps China on Abuse of Uyghurs at Vatican Conference
    US Secretary of State Pompeo Raps China on Abuse of Uyghurs at Vatican Conference

    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday slammed China over its repressive policies against Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), while calling on the international c...

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    Beijing Ramped up Crackdowns on Churches Before National Day
    Beijing Ramped up Crackdowns on Churches Before National Day

    To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party rule, China’s capital prepared a “gift” for believers by closing down their places of worship.

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    Tibetans Forced to Show ‘Loyalty’ in Run-up to China’s National Day
    Tibetans Forced to Show ‘Loyalty’ in Run-up to China’s National Day

    Chinese authorities have tightened controls in Tibet ahead of Oct. 1 celebrations of China’s National Day, hoisting Chinese flags on monastery roofs and forcing monks to sing songs praising the ru...

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    China Mobilizes The 'Masses' to Join Nationwide Security Ops Ahead of Oct. 1
    China Mobilizes The 'Masses' to Join Nationwide Security Ops Ahead of Oct. 1

    The ruling Chinese Communist Party has mobilized hundreds of thousands of its citizens as part of a massive nationwide security operation ahead of the Oct. 1 National Day celebrations in Beijing, loca...

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    Chinese Rights Activist Detained After Supporting Hong Kong Protests
    Chinese Rights Activist Detained After Supporting Hong Kong Protests

    Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have criminally detained a prominent rights activist after he repeatedly showed public support for the anti-extradition protests in Hong...

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    Church of Almighty God Believer Dies in Police Custody
    Church of Almighty God Believer Dies in Police Custody

    Arrested for her faith, Ren Cuifang, 30, passed away on the 12th day of detention. After seeing her bruised body, the family suspects she has been tortured to death.  by Chang Xin Her name

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    Uyghur Businessman Remains Jailed Eight Months After ‘Terrorism’ Conviction Reversed on Appeal
    Uyghur Businessman Remains Jailed Eight Months After ‘Terrorism’ Conviction Reversed on Appeal

    One of the wealthiest Uyghur businessmen in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) city, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), remains jailed in poor health more than eight months af...

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    China: Ban on Tibet Religious Activity Toughened
    China: Ban on Tibet Religious Activity Toughened

    Scrap Limits on Former Officials’ Freedom of Religion (New York) – A Chinese Communist Party notice banning retired Tibetan government employees from taking part in religious activities violates 

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    Burial Reform: Exhumed Bodies and Forced Cremations
    Burial Reform: Exhumed Bodies and Forced Cremations

    The ruling to impose cremations in Jiangxi Province sparked protests, which the state quickly crushed. Some elderly chose suicides to be buried ahead of reform. by Wang Yong Burial of the dead is

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    Uyghur Teacher Dies While Presumed Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp
    Uyghur Teacher Dies While Presumed Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp

    A Uyghur teacher of Mandarin Chinese, who is believed to have been detained in an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), has died, according to his wife and o...

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    Uyghur Toddler Drowns While Parents Are Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp
    Uyghur Toddler Drowns While Parents Are Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp

    A young Uyghur boy whose parents are being held in internment camps in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has drowned, according to sources, who said they were unsure who had b...

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    Wife of Lawyer Under House Arrest Pens Appeal to Merkel Ahead of China Trip
    Wife of Lawyer Under House Arrest Pens Appeal to Merkel Ahead of China Trip

    The wife of prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong has called on the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, to put pressure on Beijing to allow him to leave China during her trip there th...

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    Churches in Hong Kong ring bells for peace
    Churches in Hong Kong ring bells for peace

    Churches throughout Hong Kong rang their bells at 1 p.m. on Sept. 1 to pray amid continuing clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police.

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    Court in China's Sichuan Jails Huang Xiaomin For Two Years, Six Months
    Court in China's Sichuan Jails Huang Xiaomin For Two Years, Six Months

    A court in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has handed a two-and-a-half year jail term to a prominent political activist for supporting a call for direct elections to choose the head o...

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    260 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in Shandong
    260 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in Shandong

    Seeking to capture all believers in one go, the CCP has mobilized law enforcement forces for a unified arrest operation during July and August. by Li Mingxuan Persecutions of believers in the

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    Hui Muslims: “We’re Facing an Unprecedented Crisis of Faith”
    Hui Muslims: “We’re Facing an Unprecedented Crisis of Faith”

    Hailed for their loyalty to the CCP for years, the “good Muslims” are losing their preferential status and become victims of persecutions just because of ethnicity and faith. by Li Guang The C

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    Jilin Province Launches a Comprehensive Program to Suppress “Religious Infiltration” from Abroad
    Jilin Province Launches a Comprehensive Program to Suppress “Religious Infiltration” from Abroad

    Confidential documents expose plans to consolidate state institutions’ forces in cracking down on groups and activities associated with foreign countries. by Wu Haiping Bitter Winter accessed conf

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    Catholics Increasingly Bullied to Join State-Run Church
    Catholics Increasingly Bullied to Join State-Run Church

    Authorities are pulling out all the stops to shove “disobedient” believers under the state’s control: churches shut down, congregations threatened and surveilled. by Tang Zhe Provincial and munici

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    Sichuan Church Elder Li Yingqiang Released on Bail
    Sichuan Church Elder Li Yingqiang Released on Bail

    Li Sent Back to Hometown After Eight Months Imprisonment 08/19/2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that over the weekend, eld

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    Abusing People’s Rights, CCP Collects DNA for Tighter Control
    Abusing People’s Rights, CCP Collects DNA for Tighter Control

    A nationwide campaign to forcibly collect people’s biometric data is in full swing across China, often misleadingly presented as a means “to fight crime.” by Wang Yong Bitter Winter has previously

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    Organs on Demand: China’s Illegal Transplant Industry Flourishes
    Organs on Demand: China’s Illegal Transplant Industry Flourishes

    Despite international condemnation, organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China has never stopped. One can get a kidney of choice in just two weeks by Li Mingxuan In an interview with B

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    Hong Kong Protests: The Catholic Factor
    Hong Kong Protests: The Catholic Factor

    The Hong Kong Catholic Church’s past, present, and future—and decisions to be taken by the Vatican—weigh heavily on the fate of the protest. by Massimo Introvigne The Hong Kong protests are co

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    Guilt by Association: Re-Educating Church of Almighty God Believers’ Families in Xinjiang
    Guilt by Association: Re-Educating Church of Almighty God Believers’ Families in Xinjiang

    Relatives of The Church of Almighty God members who are sent to internment camps are surveilled by the state and forced to undergo “political conversion.”

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    Old Churches Demolished, New Ones Not Approved
    Old Churches Demolished, New Ones Not Approved

    Defrauded by the CCP, congregations of state-approved churches are left with nowhere to worship after they agree to tear down their dilapidated buildings.

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    A Roundtable Letter to EU in Support of CAG Asylum Seekers
    A Roundtable Letter to EU in Support of CAG Asylum Seekers

    On July 23, 2019, European Freedom of Religion or Belief Roundtable, consisting of NGOs, scholars, religious leaders, lawyers, human rights activists, etc. summited a joint letter to all members of th

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    CAG Members: Stop Coercing Our Families into Staging False Demonstrations in Korea
    CAG Members: Stop Coercing Our Families into Staging False Demonstrations in Korea

    Over thirty members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) in Seoul held a press conference on July 22, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in front of the South Korean presidential palace Blue House where they held sign

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    Informants on Believers Rewarded with Cash
    Informants on Believers Rewarded with Cash

    Monetary rewards by the government nurture the culture of snitching in China, putting people of faith in permanent danger and resulting in the closure of churches.

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    CCP’s Fear of the Ten Commandments
    CCP’s Fear of the Ten Commandments

    Allowing the Chinese to worship only the Communist Party, authorities are ordering the removal of the fundamental law of Christianity from churches.

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    Young Believer Loses Sight in One Eye After Torture
    Young Believer Loses Sight in One Eye After Torture

    Seven years ago, a 23-year-old man was imprisoned for being a member of The Church of Almighty God. He continues to be persecuted after his release from custody.

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    The CCP Secret Plan Revealed: Eradicate House Churches in Two Years
    The CCP Secret Plan Revealed: Eradicate House Churches in Two Years

    The CCP has a new mission: eliminating house churches nationwide within the next two years. In the meantime, it’s upping the ante, forcibly shutting down churches and targeting them even in cyberspace.

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    Church of Almighty God Members “Transformed” in Xinjiang
    Church of Almighty God Members “Transformed” in Xinjiang

    Alongside millions of persecuted Muslims, CAG members are also sent to internment camps. Those who are not are indoctrinated at home to renounce their faith.

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    Demolish or Sell! Three-Self Churches Dispersed in Jiangxi
    Demolish or Sell! Three-Self Churches Dispersed in Jiangxi

    Government-controlled Protestant churches suffer brutal crackdowns, often resulting in closures that leave large numbers of believers without a place to worship.

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    10 Sola Fide Meeting Venues in Zibo City, Shandong, Shut Down
    10 Sola Fide Meeting Venues in Zibo City, Shandong, Shut Down

    Four of the church’s leaders were also arrested in one of the largest operations against this network of house churches.

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    Worshiping in a Bathhouse to Evade Persecution
    Worshiping in a Bathhouse to Evade Persecution

    To avoid raids and arrests, house church believers disguise their venues or opt to pray in the mountains, just to stay away from the watchful eyes of the regime.

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    Inform on Religious Friends or Relatives, Get a Reward and Keep Your Job
    Inform on Religious Friends or Relatives, Get a Reward and Keep Your Job

    Arrest quotas, monetary bonuses, fines, other “stick and carrot” methods are widely used to encourage officials and police officers to suppress people of faith.

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    Pro-CCP Hackers in Action: FOREF Site Attacked
    Pro-CCP Hackers in Action: FOREF Site Attacked

    Forum for Religious Freedom Europe’s most successful videos ever denounced the persecution against The Church of Almighty God’s refugees in South Korea. A dark hand (or rather a red hand) made them inaccessible.

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    The Bizarre of CCP’s Crackdowns on Buddhism and Taoism
    The Bizarre of CCP’s Crackdowns on Buddhism and Taoism

    The government orders to change the appearance of temples, prohibits religious words and traditional ceremonies. Some believers end up in police custody.

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    “We released 90% of the Uyghurs.” The CCP Lies Again, Bitter Winter Reveals the Truth
    “We released 90% of the Uyghurs.” The CCP Lies Again, Bitter Winter Reveals the Truth

    Xinjiang CCP leaders claim that the majority of the camps’ inmates have found “suitable work.” In fact, they have not been released but are compelled to work in factories built inside the camps.

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    How China Is Bullying and Blocking the UN Human Rights Mechanisms
    How China Is Bullying and Blocking the UN Human Rights Mechanisms

    A detailed UNPO report documents how Beijing (and other illiberal regimes) is preventing – legally and illegally – the voice of the persecuted from being heard internationally.

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    Little-Known Prisoners of Xinjiang Camps: Members of The Church of Almighty God
    Little-Known Prisoners of Xinjiang Camps: Members of The Church of Almighty God

    Believers of the single most persecuted religious group in China are detained indefinitely for “transformation,” no information is provided to their relatives.

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    From Actor to Refugee: The Story of Jia Zhigang
    From Actor to Refugee: The Story of Jia Zhigang

    He was once a famous actor in China. Then, he converted to The Church of Almighty God and escaped religious persecution by fleeing to South Korea. The CCP keeps persecuting him even there.

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    “Uyghur Scholars” Defend the CCP—Really?
    “Uyghur Scholars” Defend the CCP—Really?

    After the Washington Ministerial, the CCP rallied “Uyghur and Kazakh scholars” to sign a letter criticizing the U.S. This looks like just another hoax.

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    House Churches Targeted as Criminal Mobs
    House Churches Targeted as Criminal Mobs

    Rewards for informers, registration of believers, propaganda, and more – Jiangxi Province spares no effort to eradicate churches not yet controlled by the CCP.

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    The Repression of Uyghurs and Other Muslim Minorities in China
    The Repression of Uyghurs and Other Muslim Minorities in China

    The text of Ms. Sawut’s speech at the June 20, 2019, conference in Seoul, The Long Arm of the Dragon, co-organized by Bitter Winter.

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    False Demonstrations in Seoul: Cui Bono?
    False Demonstrations in Seoul: Cui Bono?

    Relatives of refugees from The Church of Almighty God (CAG) were coerced or manipulated to go to Seoul and stage anti-CAG demonstrations with the notorious Ms. O. These sideshows regularly end in disgrace. Why does the CCP keep organizing them?

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    CHINA: Open Letter concerning Asylum Seekers from The Church of Almighty God
    CHINA: Open Letter concerning Asylum Seekers from The Church of Almighty God

    CHINA: Asylum Seekers from The Church of Almighty God (CAG) Open Letter to all members of the EU Parliament and all EU States Ambassadors to the EU by the Freedom of Religion or Belief Roundtable B

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    Ms. O and CCP’s Seoul Demonstrations End in Disgrace—As Usual
    Ms. O and CCP’s Seoul Demonstrations End in Disgrace—As Usual

    A “family search party” was brought to Seoul to stage false demonstrations where relatives asked Church of Almighty God refugees to “come home” to China, i.e. to jail. This time, local media clearly understood that it was Ms. O who prevented the relatives from peacefully meeting their loved ones.

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    Imprisoned Taoist Deities: Relentless Crackdown on Temples Continues
    Imprisoned Taoist Deities: Relentless Crackdown on Temples Continues

    Since last year, Taoism, long considered as China’s traditional religion, suffered the most severe crackdown since the Cultural Revolution.

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    Christians Hoping to Meet “Relatives-Searching” Family Members Pro-CCP Activist Stood in the Way
    Christians Hoping to Meet “Relatives-Searching” Family Members Pro-CCP Activist Stood in the Way

    ADHRRF—July 24th, 10 am, led by pro-CCP activist O Myung-ok, about a dozen family members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) Christians, together with another dozen or so elderly female strangers, staged demonstrations and made a scene in front of Onsu CAG premises, whose volume at times peaked over 90db.

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    TODAY IN SEOUL, KOREA: Press Conference by Chinese Christians Who Fled From Persecution
    TODAY IN SEOUL, KOREA: Press Conference by Chinese Christians Who Fled From Persecution

    Press Conference on July 22 of 2019 Given by The Church of Almighty God, a Religious Group Persecuted in China

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    Confidential Documents Expose CCP’s Plans to Persecute The Church of Almighty God Abroad
    Confidential Documents Expose CCP’s Plans to Persecute The Church of Almighty God Abroad

    CCP collects information on CAG members who fled China, uses agents and online propaganda to harass them. Anyone opposing the persecution deemed hostile to China.

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    More Restrictions in Xinjiang: Visiting Friends and Family Strictly Controlled
    More Restrictions in Xinjiang: Visiting Friends and Family Strictly Controlled

    Even a visit to a family member or a trip outside the region required to be registered with government officials. Those overstaying could be punished.

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    “I Refused to Go to Seoul”: One Relative Exposes the CCP’s Plot
    “I Refused to Go to Seoul”: One Relative Exposes the CCP’s Plot

    On July 22, coerced or manipulated relatives of The Church of Almighty God refugees will stage false “spontaneous demonstrations” in Korea. But some relatives refused to go.

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    Story of O: Korea #1 Bigot Harasses Refugees (and Many Others)—Again
    Story of O: Korea #1 Bigot Harasses Refugees (and Many Others)—Again

    On July 22, new false demonstrations against refugees from The Church of Almighty God start in Korea. The bigot promoting them is spreading hate against all minorities.

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    Tibetan Buddhism Suppressed: Lamas Closely Monitored, Temple Destroyed
    Tibetan Buddhism Suppressed: Lamas Closely Monitored, Temple Destroyed

    Two temples in Shanxi were subjected to crackdowns: authorities have taken full control over one of them, while the other has been turned into ruins, lama arrested.

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    Over 300 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in Shandong
    Over 300 Church of Almighty God Members Arrested in Shandong

    Throughout the province, arrest operations have been implemented since Spring. New details on the planning, implementation of this suppression, and its victims.

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    Ministerial Denounces Religious Persecution in China as “Stain of the Century”
    Ministerial Denounces Religious Persecution in China as “Stain of the Century”

    106 countries attended in Washington the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. The clearest message: China persecutes all religions.

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    Obliteration of Buddhist Heritage Continues: Two Ancient Temples Shattered in Northern China
    Obliteration of Buddhist Heritage Continues: Two Ancient Temples Shattered in Northern China

    Both spanning a history of nearly a millennium and a half, one of the temples was demolished, the other was converted into a communist propaganda center.

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    Fearing the Spread of Buddhism, CCP Bans Popular Master’s Teachings
    Fearing the Spread of Buddhism, CCP Bans Popular Master’s Teachings

    Books and DVDs by Venerable Master Chin Kung, revered around the world for propagating multicultural and interfaith harmony, have been labeled as illegal in China.

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    Persecution of Chinese Refugees of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea Should Not Start Again
    Persecution of Chinese Refugees of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea Should Not Start Again

    We urge Korean authorities to grant asylum to the believers of The Church of Almighty God who, should they return to China, would face arrest, detention, and torture, and to prevent Chinese intelligence and their Korean accomplices to continue harassing refugees in South Korea.

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    Accomplices: Western Companies Supporting CCP Atrocities Denounced in Washington
    Accomplices: Western Companies Supporting CCP Atrocities Denounced in Washington

    At the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom organized by the U.S. State Department in Washington DC, high-tech companies supplying components to Chinese surveillance systems are told that this is immoral—and should be illegal too.

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    They Are Coming! CCP Sends Again Relatives of Church of Almighty God Refugees to Korea to Stage False Demonstrations
    They Are Coming! CCP Sends Again Relatives of Church of Almighty God Refugees to Korea to Stage False Demonstrations

    The CCP harasses again the relatives of CAG refugees in Korea who live in China, luring them to travel abroad to South Korea on July 22-24 next to “search for relatives” and bring them back… to jail.

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    Tibetan Nuns Beaten by Chinese Guards For ‘Weeping’ in Detention
    Tibetan Nuns Beaten by Chinese Guards For ‘Weeping’ in Detention

    Tibetan nuns evicted by Chinese authorities from a Tibetan Buddhist study center in Sichuan have been singled out for harsh treatment by their guards after showing signs of distress during political re-education sessions, according to Tibetan sources.

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    CCP Intensifies Attacks on Charitable Religious Organizations
    CCP Intensifies Attacks on Charitable Religious Organizations

    People in need are left to fend for themselves, as orphanages, drug addiction centers, and homeless shelters are suppressed just because the services are provided by the religious.

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    The Long Arm of the Dragon: A New Movie by Bitter Winter
    The Long Arm of the Dragon: A New Movie by Bitter Winter

    The movie on how the CCP operates abroad, directly or through fellow travelers, to intimidate refugees and prevent them from obtaining asylum, is now available online.

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    Who Needs Religion? Buddhists Pressured to Be More Political
    Who Needs Religion? Buddhists Pressured to Be More Political

    Communist propaganda echoes from inside temples, as places of worship are turning into Party indoctrination centers. CCP-supported abbots lead the way.

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    Axis of Shame: Human Rights Foes Support China’s Xinjiang Camps
    Axis of Shame: Human Rights Foes Support China’s Xinjiang Camps

    At the United Nations, 22 countries sign a letter condemning the CCP transformations through education camps, 37 answer praising China’s “remarkable achievements” in human rights.

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    UN: Freedom of Expression Under Threat from Surveillance Industry
    UN: Freedom of Expression Under Threat from Surveillance Industry

    A United Nations investigator says the rise of the private surveillance industry and the targeting of individuals by digital surveillance technology is undermining freedom of expression and putting the lives of many individuals at risk.

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    No Church Can Be More Beautiful Than State Buildings
    No Church Can Be More Beautiful Than State Buildings

    Three government-approved Protestant churches have been destroyed in Shandong’s Linyi city for various made up reasons.

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    Nearly Two Dozen Nations Urge China to End Mass Incarcerations in Xinjiang at UN Rights Council
    Nearly Two Dozen Nations Urge China to End Mass Incarcerations in Xinjiang at UN Rights Council

    Nearly two dozen countries at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council in Geneva have urged China to end mass arbitrary detentions, as well as widespread surveillance and restrictions, on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

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    Is Huawei a Backdoor for the Chinese Military and Secret Services?
    Is Huawei a Backdoor for the Chinese Military and Secret Services?

    A research by Dr. Christopher Balding on the telecommunication giant created by former military Mr. Ren Zhengfei documents the connections that Italian former Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi considers alarming.

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    Chess and Cards Instead of Faith: More Christian Churches Repurposed
    Chess and Cards Instead of Faith: More Christian Churches Repurposed

    The CCP continues taking over places of worship, threatening congregations to demolish buildings if they refuse. Testimonies from Jiangxi, Liaoning, and Shaanxi.

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    A Politburo Member’s Visit to Henan Leaves a Trail of Stifled Religious Venues
    A Politburo Member’s Visit to Henan Leaves a Trail of Stifled Religious Venues

    Eager to prove to higher-ups their gusto in suppressing religions, Xingyang city authorities shattered numerous Christian and folk religion places of worship.

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    Ms. O Again! She Insults Islam, Uyghurs, Refugees… and Bitter Winter
    Ms. O Again! She Insults Islam, Uyghurs, Refugees… and Bitter Winter

    Ms. O Myung-ok, the notorious Korean anti-cult and pro-CCP activist, attacks the June 20 conference organized by Bitter Winter and claims Islam “is not one of the world’s major religions”.

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    Looting House Churches to Prevent Their Resurgence
    Looting House Churches to Prevent Their Resurgence

    To ensure that congregations have no means to reopen closed down places of worship, CCP is confiscating their assets and burning Bibles and religious symbols.

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    Xinjiang: The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China Seeks Urgent Action from Administration
    Xinjiang: The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China Seeks Urgent Action from Administration

    Their letter of April 3, invoking targeted sanctions against CCP officials, is still unanswered. On the anniversary of the Urumqi massacre, they raise their voice again.

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    The Urumqi Massacre of 10 Years Ago and the Olympic Calm of Repressive China
    The Urumqi Massacre of 10 Years Ago and the Olympic Calm of Repressive China

    Despite this blatant human rights abuse and vicious crimes against humanity, Beijing is set for hosting the 2022 Olympics. Will the West buy Beijing’s lies again?

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    Over 100 Believers Pressured to Agree to Church Demolition
    Over 100 Believers Pressured to Agree to Church Demolition

    When members of the congregation refused, authorities in Shaanxi still destroyed a state-approved Protestant church, under a trumped-up pretext.

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    Catholic Church in Diocese of Yujiang Raided and Shut Down
    Catholic Church in Diocese of Yujiang Raided and Shut Down

    Clergy and believers refusing to join the Patriotic Church cannot evade the CCP’s continuous crackdowns and persecution even in the most remote rural places.

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    “Sinicization” of State-Controlled Churches: Patriotism Instead of Bible
    “Sinicization” of State-Controlled Churches: Patriotism Instead of Bible

    CCP is invading Three-Self churches: propaganda introduced into sermons, communist symbols replace crosses; even architectural style of buildings is changed.

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    Thousands of Monks, Nuns ‘Politically Re-Educated’ After Eviction From Sichuan’s Yachen Gar
    Thousands of Monks, Nuns ‘Politically Re-Educated’ After Eviction From Sichuan’s Yachen Gar

    Thousands of monks and nuns forced out of the Yachen Gar Tibetan Buddhist Center in western China’s Sichuan province and back to their hometowns have been “rounded up” by authorities and sent for “political re-education,” according to Tibetan sources.

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    Fuzhou Catholics Pressured with Force to Join Patriotic Association
    Fuzhou Catholics Pressured with Force to Join Patriotic Association

    Amid raids and crackdowns, clergy and congregations of what used to be Underground Catholic Church are continuing to resist being governed by the state.

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    Taizhou, Zhejiang: House Church Believers Prepared to Be Arrested for Their Faith
    Taizhou, Zhejiang: House Church Believers Prepared to Be Arrested for Their Faith

    Unapproved Protestant churches are bracing for more crackdowns, as local officials are planning a new round of suppression in the second half of the year.

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    Crackdown on Christianity in Jilin: Over 100 Church Crosses Removed
    Crackdown on Christianity in Jilin: Over 100 Church Crosses Removed

    Clergy and congregation members from state-approved and house churches alike worry that the persecution of Christianity is only going to escalate.

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    Targeted Sanctions on Xinjiang Government, Seven Senators Urge Trump to Act Now
    Targeted Sanctions on Xinjiang Government, Seven Senators Urge Trump to Act Now

    It seems that the Department of the Treasury is stopping the direct way to hold tyrants accountable for their crimes in the Muslim region, and Democrats react.

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    Shanxi’s House Churches Closed for Suspected Foreign Ties
    Shanxi’s House Churches Closed for Suspected Foreign Ties

    Any association with overseas religionists is one of the many popular pretexts for the CCP to eliminate the places of worship refusing to join Three-Self Church.

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    Elimination of Buddhist Cultural Heritage: 500 Arhat Statues Destroyed in Fujian
    Elimination of Buddhist Cultural Heritage: 500 Arhat Statues Destroyed in Fujian

    Surrounding the ancient Baoguo Temple, the statues were built with the state’s approval in 2010. They now fell victim to the purge of open-air Buddhist icons.

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    Vatican Issues Guidelines: Joining the Patriotic Association Allowed, Not Mandatory
    Vatican Issues Guidelines: Joining the Patriotic Association Allowed, Not Mandatory

    A new document clarifies the Holy See’s official position on the controversial question whether Catholic priests and Bishops “can” or “should” join the CCP-controlled association.

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    Taiwan International Religious Freedom Forum, Declaration on the Persecution of the Uyghurs
    Taiwan International Religious Freedom Forum, Declaration on the Persecution of the Uyghurs

    We publish the declaration adopted by the participants to the Forum, including Bitter Winter, on May 31, 2019.

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    Burn the Bodies to Hide the Evidence: “Sinicized” Buddhist Statue Demolished
    Burn the Bodies to Hide the Evidence: “Sinicized” Buddhist Statue Demolished

    To avoid being ridiculed, the CCP once again destroys the results of its religion suppression policies after they are disclosed on Bitter Winter.

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    Three-Self Clergy Beaten and Arrested for Disagreeing with the State
    Three-Self Clergy Beaten and Arrested for Disagreeing with the State

    Preachers and pastors from state-approved Three-Self Church continue to suffer violent abuse for any divergence from the CCP’s plan to suppress people of faith.

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    Xinjiang Vice Governor Paints Internment Camps as ‘Vocational Centers’ at UN Rights Council
    Xinjiang Vice Governor Paints Internment Camps as ‘Vocational Centers’ at UN Rights Council

    The vice governor of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) on Tuesday defended the government's policy of incarcerating Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps, repeating for the United Nations Beijing's claims that the camps are part of a vocational training program that is saving those influenced by religious extremism, but drawing criticism from rights groups who said the U.N. should not be used as a stage from which to promote state propaganda.

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    Persecution Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Escalates in China
    Persecution Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Escalates in China

    For the first time, the article of the Criminal Code against xie jiao (“heterodox teachings”) is used in Xinjiang to indict 18 Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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    Share a Meal and Go to Jail
    Share a Meal and Go to Jail

    Sola Fide believers were arrested and beaten in Hubei, after having been told that even gathering for a dinner is an illegal religious activity.

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    Party-Glorifying Songs Replace Buddhist Chants
    Party-Glorifying Songs Replace Buddhist Chants

    Even dances and aerobics for seniors to traditional Buddhist music are prohibited in public spaces, for fear of the spread of religion.

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    “Sinicization” of Hymns to Praise the Party
    “Sinicization” of Hymns to Praise the Party

    Patriotic ideology and traditional Chinese culture forcefully replacing religious activities, churches pressured to stage plays and operas to transform faith.

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    “Arrested, Abused, Tortured”: State Department Report Denounces China’s Persecution of Religion
    “Arrested, Abused, Tortured”: State Department Report Denounces China’s Persecution of Religion

    China has the largest section in the annual report, denouncing repression of all faiths and torture against Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, members of The Church of Almighty God, and others. The most quoted media? Bitter Winter

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    Employment Opportunities for Believers Rapidly Decreasing
    Employment Opportunities for Believers Rapidly Decreasing

    People are denied basic rights, such as jobs and social security if their faith is disclosed. Even their relatives suffer after investigations by employers.

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    Xinjiang Internment Camps, Rohingya in Myanmar Highlighted For Religious Repression: Report
    Xinjiang Internment Camps, Rohingya in Myanmar Highlighted For Religious Repression: Report

    Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps on a vast scale last year, while ramping up surveillance tactics to gain information about religion practices, the U.S. State Department said in an annual report released on Friday.

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    For the CCP, “Bitter Winter” Is Always in the Eye of the Storm
    For the CCP, “Bitter Winter” Is Always in the Eye of the Storm

    Of our 45 correspondents arrested in 2018, 24 have been released, but the remaining were imprisoned for speaking the truth. A leopard cannot change its spots.

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    Chinese Religious Persecution, Harassment of Refugees Abroad Denounced in Seoul
    Chinese Religious Persecution, Harassment of Refugees Abroad Denounced in Seoul

    A conference co-hosted by Bitter Winter denounced a global CCP campaign aimed at preventing Chinese refugees from persecuted religious groups from being granted asylum abroad.

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    Three-Self Church Members Refuse to Worship Communist God
    Three-Self Church Members Refuse to Worship Communist God

    Despite harsh crackdowns on non-sanctioned places of worship, ever more state-approved church believers join them, preferring life in danger to indoctrination.

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    Surveillance Cameras Besiege Three-Self Churches
    Surveillance Cameras Besiege Three-Self Churches

    Believers in government-controlled churches have their personal and religious freedoms violated, as authorities watch their every move.

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    Teams of Three Sent to Supervise Religious Venues
    Teams of Three Sent to Supervise Religious Venues

    CCP intensifies the already sweeping surveillance of places of worship by assigning officials to each; to control believers and ensure loyalty to the Party line.

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    Thousands of Monks, Nuns Evicted From Sichuan’s Yachen Gar
    Thousands of Monks, Nuns Evicted From Sichuan’s Yachen Gar

    Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province have recently forced nearly 3,500 monks and nuns from the Yachen Gar Tibetan Buddhist Center located in Kardze prefecture’s Palyul county, Tibetan sources say.

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    New Round of Crackdown Against The Church of Almighty God
    New Round of Crackdown Against The Church of Almighty God

    Confidential documents from provincial governments disclose the escalating brutal suppression, aided with propaganda and resulting in arrests of believers.

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    “They Killed My Mother, They Arrested My Father”: Sister Zou Demei’s Father’s Day Reflections
    “They Killed My Mother, They Arrested My Father”: Sister Zou Demei’s Father’s Day Reflections

    The former leader of The Church of Almighty God in four Chinese provinces is free in the United States, but her mother has been killed and she cannot contact her elderly father in China.

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    Church of Almighty God’s Sister Zou Demei Is Free
    Church of Almighty God’s Sister Zou Demei Is Free

    Supported by a campaign by Bitter Winter and several NGOs, the former leader of the CAG in four Chinese provinces, who escaped to the US with a false passport, has finally left jail.

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    Smart Locks in Rental Properties Also Monitor Believers
    Smart Locks in Rental Properties Also Monitor Believers

    Promoted as a tool to “maintaining stability,” the locks that use facial recognition, phones, or IDs, is a new addition to the system of complete surveillance.

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    New Stability Maintenance Target: LED Lightboxes
    New Stability Maintenance Target: LED Lightboxes

    To prevent any anti-government content from appearing publicly, the CCP is taking measures to control the content of computer-controlled displays.

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    South Korean Christians Systematically Suppressed
    South Korean Christians Systematically Suppressed

    Foreign-affiliated churches are continuously harassed: religious venues closed down, believers investigated and prohibited from traveling abroad.

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    Xunsiding Church Closed After Months of Harassment
    Xunsiding Church Closed After Months of Harassment

    A nearly 70-year-old and one of the most influential house churches in Fujian Province ceased to function on May 31; the church’s pastor heavily fined.

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    Local Officials at the Forefront of Crackdown on Religions
    Local Officials at the Forefront of Crackdown on Religions

    Prohibited from believing in God themselves, Party members and officials are pledging to watch for and persecute all religious activities.

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    The Purge of Religion-Related Signboards Escalates
    The Purge of Religion-Related Signboards Escalates

    Many businesses have been forced to change their names, eliminating any references to faith, even if the signs were not meant to be religious at all.

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    Informants Infiltrated on University Campuses
    Informants Infiltrated on University Campuses

    Student “spies” are secretly monitoring teachers and students, reporting any information about religious beliefs or activities to the school.

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    Four More Open-Air Buddhist Statues Destroyed
    Four More Open-Air Buddhist Statues Destroyed

    Four More Open-Air Buddhist Statues Destroyed

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    Journalism in Face of the “Uyghur Crisis”

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    Women and Children First ‒ to be Slaughtered

    After the folly of the “one-child policy”, here comes the folly of the “two-child policy”. And girls are still selectively aborted.

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