A site likely connected with Chinese intelligence services publishes lists of refugees who have applied for asylum in Italy. How does it get them? Massimo Introvigne The Church of Almighty G

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 Communist P...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 religious gr...

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

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

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

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,

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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, prompting ...

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 economic ...

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, acco...

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

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. ...

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

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

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...

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...

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, Wan

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

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

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 national ...

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 act...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 after t...

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...

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 after be...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 “distract” ...

A pro-democracy newspaper raided by Hong Kong's newly established national security police pledged defiance on Tuesday in the face of a growing crackdown on dissent in the city as its founder Jimm...

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 Wint

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...

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...

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...

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

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 Departm...

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

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...

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...

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 Baptist...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 (

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 pro...

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...

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

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 renewal

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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, intenti

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 levels,...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 We

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...

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 spokesman f...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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's d...

Threatening and intimidating Muslims, the CCP implemented forced rectifications of mosques in Hui-populated areas in Henan, Hebei, and Ningxia. by Huang Xin The central province of Henan, with a l

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...

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 national security law on...

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

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 in ...

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

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...

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

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 to ...

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 (

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...

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, Amnes...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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 smartphones to...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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. by

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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 at th...

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

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 offici...

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

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 agai

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 the ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 Kon

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

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 traditio...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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 Rosenzwe...

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...

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 

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 Region,...

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

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-

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)...

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...

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

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

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...

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 proteste...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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 the c...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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 

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'...

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), ...

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...

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...

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

  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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

House Church Pastor Arrested for Refusing to Join State-Vetted Church 04/14/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a house c...

04/13/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – An elder from a house church in China’s southeastern Guangzhou city has been repeatedly harassed by the local authorities, according to China Aid. ...

Though approved by the government, Three-Self churches are not guaranteed protection from the state, and they often become targets of religious persecution. by Zhang Wenshu Even the deadly coronav

The death of Li Wenliang, the whistleblower Wuhan doctor, stirred an online rebellion in China. But the regime promptly quashed people’s demands for free speech.

04/10/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Although it is true that due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the Chinese government seems to relax its surveillance of house churches due to change o...

Religious texts not approved by the state, including the Bible, are confiscated from churches and believers, replaced with socialist propaganda. by Zhang Feng During the second half of 2019, the C

Two Christians in Guangdong were arrested at the end of last year for printing children’s Bibles. Now they face charges and imprisonment.

Members of The Church of Almighty God are given lengthy prison sentences and are brutally pressured to give up their faith while in detention. by Deng Jie “I was forced to sit completely still

A Tibetan shopkeeper jailed for carrying a flag with a color photo of the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan figures at a festival in 2015 was released and returned to his family in Ngaba (in Chinese, A...

The fate of several missing Uyghur academics in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) remains a closely guarded secret, which members of the Uyghur exile community say makes “...

One day after his release from prison, Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang told friends that he is being watched by state agents — fueling calls at home and abroad for China to stop using the...

Soldiers share the memories of serving their country they wish to forget: hunting down Uyghurs, killing Tibetan monks, “selective” rescue of earthquake victims. by An Xin Suppressing Muslims in Xinj

Responding to the release of Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang after four and a half years in prison for “subverting state power”, Amnesty International’s China Researcher Doriane Lau sai...

The CCP continues to suppress places of worship that refuse to be governed by the state. by Zheng Jie Since the new Regulations on Religious Affairs came into force in 2018, the Catholic churches

Hong Kong's High Court ruled on Thursday that warrantless searches of arrestees' cell phones could go ahead, as long as a full account of the search was made. The decision overturned an October 201

Uyghur health workers from throughout one prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being forced to live in hotels in Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) city set up as ...

An elderly Tibetan man and his son were detained in the Tibet Autonomous Region at the end of last year for listening to teachings by exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, RFA’s Tibetan service ...

03/29/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Pastor Ma Chao and his wife from the Guangfu house church in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, have not been able to step out from their community...

03/28/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – In the name of preventing the spread of Coronavirus, the Chinese government interfered the funeral arrangement for an elderly underground bisho...

Hong Kong used to be called the shining pearl of the East. The combination of Chinese traditional culture and the British rule of law made Hong Kong the world’s third biggest financial center. Dur...

Hidayet Musajan, a young Uyghur man living and studying in exile in Turkey, last spoke with his father, a well-known comedian in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) named Mu...

By Linda Burkle, PhD 2019 was a year marked by heightened surveillance and persecution of Christians in China.  According to China Aid, Christians living in President XI Jinping’s current regime ha...

Ambassador Claims ‘Unreasonable, Unnecessary Obstacles’ Prevent UN Visit When a journalist recently asked China’s ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai if the Chinese government would all...

The coronavirus epidemic may never have gone pandemic if journalists had been allowed to do their jobs rather than adhering to ruling Chinese Communist Party propaganda directives, a Paris-based press...

A Uyghur singer celebrated for her love ballads has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term for “separatism” following a secret trial in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR),...

03/23/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Despite the Chinese government’s claim that there are no new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in the country, China is still very engulfed in...

While the CCP governs the Three-Self Church, many of its venues are not issued religious activity registration certificates and are subsequently stifled and shut. by Wang Anyang Since the new Regu

China has exonerated late whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang, who was hauled in for questioning by police, who accused him of "spreading rumors" when he tried to alert the authorities about the eme...

All internment camp detainees in one county in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been relocated to prisons or to parts of the country’s interior, according to a local pol...

The CCP indoctrinates believers to give up their faith through beatings, sleep and food deprivation, and other cruel physical and psychological means. by Xiang Yi Along with three million Uyghurs 

Reporters at Major US Outlets to be Expelled, Hong Kong Reporting Restricted (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately reverse its decision to expel reporters from three major US media...

Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong say the city's police are continuing to make arbitrary arrests of citizens in the wake of protests against a planned coronavirus clinic in a Kowloon neighborhood. ...

The State Department’s new annual Human Rights Report denounces a staggering situation. Bitter Winter and its detained reporters are among those mentioned. by Marco Respinti On March 11, t

Hold China to Account; Seek Independent Investigation   (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council should address the worsening human rights crisis in the Xinjiang region in northwester

China's state security police are investigating detained dissident Xu Zhiyong for subversion after detaining him in the city he fled to after calling on President Xi Jinping to resign. Xu, who ...

Not only do Church of Almighty God members face inhuman persecution at home. For those hoping to find safety abroad, refugee status is hindered by the virus. by Bai Shengyi He Jia fled to Italy ov

Rights Groups Grill Beijing on Turkic Muslim Detention Camps This week China found itself in the hotseat at the United Nations, where it was questioned about the more than one million Turkic Muslim...

The mother and daughter of a wealthy Uyghur family in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms related to their overseas connections, ac...

Accounts of one Uyghur woman’s family members locked up in Xinjiang’s internment camps support what is described in the recently leaked CCP’s secret document. by Chang Xin The so-called

Taipei, February 28, 2020--Authorities in Hong Kong should drop legal charges against Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Media, and stop harassing journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said to...

China is systematically harassing Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups even after they have left the country, according to new testimonies gathered by Amnesty International. The case studies,...

FAs representatives of NGOs, religious organizations, and citizens concerned about freedom of religion and belief and the dignity of every human being, we call the attention of the political authoriti...

The stories of two members of The Church of Almighty God who were harassed by the Chinese authorities in 2019. Two out of more than 32,000 last year’s cases. by Shen Xiang In October 2019, Mr.

The sentenced believers – aged from 17 to 78 – were prosecuted for making videos for the Church. Two among them will be kept behind bars for eight years. by Xiao Baiming In September 2019, the Int

Brother Zhang Wenbo tells Bitter Winter how he was suspended on a rope, beaten with a steel tube, and burned with cigarettes. His only crime? Preaching a banned religion. By Ruth Ingram Pi

Responding to the arrest of prominent Chinese activist and legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, who has been targeted since attending a meeting of human rights lawyers and activists and who recently criticiz...

A treaty signed by China and Nepal in October 2019 that manages border controls between the two countries poses significant threats to Tibetans fleeing their homeland to escape Chinese rule, Tibet...

02/14/2020 Hong Kong/Macau (International Christian Concern) – In the midst of fighting the Coronavirus epidemic, China announced yesterday that it will put Xia Baolong, previously known for removing ...

A woman from northern China shares a tragic story of how doctors promised to help her ill husband, but she was lured into agreeing to donate his organs instead. by Wang Gong Regulation on Human Or

02/09/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A state-sanctioned Chinese priest who was released on December 9, 2019, after being jailed for a year and two months, is now ousted by the governme...

UPDATED at 9:26 A.M. ET on 2020-02-08 U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday offered prayers for Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims killed or jailed for exercising their faith in ...

02/04/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – A revised set of administrative measures on religions came into force on February 1 across China, covering all religions, as announced late las...

Churches refusing to join the Patriotic Catholic Association are repurposed for cultural or propaganda centers, as congregation members are driven away. by Tang Zhe Since the signing of the Vatica

by Massimo Introvigne 6,132 members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) have been arrested in China in 2019. 3,824 have been tortured, and 19 died as a result of the persecution. These are

Authorities in the eastern province of Shandong have detained a Hui Muslim poet and author after he tweeted about the incarceration, surveillance and persecution of Chinese Muslims, both in Xinjia...

Even state-run churches are not spared CCP’s endless harassments. Two directors of Three-Self churches in Henan died after crackdowns on their places of worship. by Yao Zhangjin  All religions in

Chinese rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi was among a number of activists linked to the New Citizens' Movement against corruption and for political change to be jailed in 2014. After his release from that ...

Police in Hong Kong arrested protest organizer Ventus Lau after claiming incorrectly that he didn't ask a peaceful protest crowd to disperse when their event was ordered to close at short notice by ri...

Members of religious groups designated as “evil cults” by China’s regime are being “transformed” through indoctrination while they serve their sentences. by Yang Guang’an  Just because of her

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, releases the World Report 2020 live from the United Nations. The report’s lead essay highlights the Chinese government’s intensifying assault on

Governments Should Unite Against Its Assault on Rights Bodies (New York) – The Chinese government is carrying out an intense attack on the global system for defending human rights, Kenneth Roth, ex...

Decision Spotlights Vanishing Freedoms Under Beijing Pressure (Hong Kong) Hong Kong authorities denied Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, entry to Hong Kong, where he had plann...

No Accountability for Excessive Use of Force Against Protesters (New York) – Hong Kong authorities should urgently establish an independent, impartial investigation into alleged excessive use o...

Torn between CCP’s pressures and the civil society’s support for the refugees, courts adjourn the hearings of Tilek Tabarak and the Musakhan-Alimuly duo. by Massimo Introvigne These are di

When almost all men from a village in northern Xinjiang were locked up in internment camps, their wives were left alone to run households. by Xiang Yi A small village under the jurisdictio

The infamous social credit system invades places of worship, as state-run churches and temples are evaluated with points, some closed down for being “substandard.” by Wu Haiping The CCP regime oft

Malaysia has appointed an international institute at a local university to prepare a study examining reports about alleged rights abuses committed by Beijing against Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinj...

While two organizations compete for the heritage and the name of Atajurt, some results, although not definitive, give reason for hope. by Massimo Introvigne With the help of volunteers def

Police fired tear gas at crowds of people in Hong Kong on Christmas Day in the latest in a string of operations targeting peaceful protesters, Christmas shoppers, tourists and passers-by that saw more...

As in other areas of China, the persecution of this Christian new religious movement in the eastern province of Shandong has intensified considerably this year. by Ye Jiajia The Church of Almighty

In Xinjiang, one of the most restricted and heavily surveilled areas in China, Christians are detained for no reason, severely punished. by Xiang Yi   Bitter Winter interviewed two Chr

In an attempt to accelerate the eradication of the largest Chinese Christian new religious movement, the CCP coaxes officials and believers to become spies. by Yang Xiangwen   Planting

A Church of Almighty God member was jailed for her faith in 2012. After years of torture and forced labor in a Chinese prison, her life will never be the same. by Hu Ke In May this year, a w

Li Wenzu, rights activist and wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, has won a European human rights award for her "exceptional contribution" to the protection and promotion of hum...

Writing for Bitter Winter is a crime in China. 45 of our reporters were arrested. 20 are still in custody but we don’t know where – actually, we cannot even confirm they are alive. by Marco

Authorities in the Chinese capital detained and questioned a group of rights activists en route to the U.S. embassy in Beijing to participate in an event marking Human Rights Day on Tuesday, RFA h...

Richard Chan, a 48-year-old businessman who made headlines after being pepper-sprayed during protests at Hong Kong's international airport has quit the boardroom to involve himself in the city's polit

The new law is a tougher version of a bill passed last September in Senate. It still needs Senate and President Trump’s approval—and a look at context. by Massimo Introvigne On December

Sentence Defies Previous Legal Promises by the Police 12/03/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Qin Derfu, an elder from Si

A long-time Uyghur activist has died days after being released from an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to sources, amid concerns that abuse...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom delivers a powerful blow to China. This proves just how useful USCIRF is, despite criticism by some US lawmakers. by Massimo Introvigne

The Chinese government is forcing believers and the clergy to replace Christian teachings with traditional Chinese culture and socialist doctrine. by Wang Yichi While state-run Three-Self churches

Newly leaked Chinese government documents include the first known “manual” for operating internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), providing local authorities with guidelin...

More and more people die while in police custody or serving their sentences in China’s prisons as a result of torture and mistreatment. by Wang Yong   Suspicious deaths of detainees in

11/22/2019 Hong Kong (International Christian Concern) – More than 40 Hong Kong Christians who have been vocal or actively participate in the ongoing protests have received threatening messages to the...

Government work groups in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are undermining the Muslim practice of abstaining from pork as part of a bid to assimilate Uyghurs into Han Chinese cultu...

The official “Pair Up and Become Family” campaign in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) highlights a deep power imbalance based on the personal information shared between  ...

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...