In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have been constantly increasing the intensity of their crackdown on religious freedom. They often aggressively attack foreign missionaries evangelizing in China, on the grounds of “resisting foreign religious infiltration.” As a result, many foreign missionaries have been arrested and forcibly deported by the CCP.Read More →
A young Tibetan man set himself on fire outside a district security office in China’s Sichuan province earlier this month, chanting, “Long Live His Holiness the Dalai Lama! Free Tibet!” Tibetan sources say the man, Drugkho, is about 22 yearsRead More →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed down a three-year jail term to a musician who sang about late Nobel peace laureate and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo. Singer-songwriter Xu Lin was sentenced to three years’ imprisonmentRead More →
The mother of Chinese rights activist and website editor Huang Qi has been detained by official ‘interceptors’ in Beijing, who shoved her to the ground after she tried to take her calls for his release to the Chinese capital. PuRead More →
Authorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Ningxia look set to import “anti-terrorism” measures currently used in the mass incarceration of an estimated one million Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, official media reported. The Ningxia government signed anRead More →
Local authorities in parts of China are organizing “alternative” events nearby the places of worship in an attempt to deter people from participating in religious activities. As Bitter Winter reported earlier, authorities in Henan have been inviting traditional opera troupesRead More →
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have placed a prominent freelance journalist and associates under criminal detention, RFA has learned. Chen Jieren, his brother Chen Weiren and associate Deng Jiangxiu were placed under criminal detention on Nov. 12Read More →
China has stepped up pressure on its embattled legal profession, requiring more than 100,000 lawyers to take a new national oath to “root out instability,” particularly in ethnic minority areas of the country. Justice minister Fu Zhenghua attended a collectiveRead More →
Li Wenzu, wife of disappeared human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, has been awarded Sweden’s Edelstam Prize for “exceptional courage” in defending human rights, the organizers said. But the prize was presented to U.S.-based activist Yuan Weijing in her place, asRead More →
Bitter Winter continues exposing the lies by Chinese authorities about the “transformation through education” camps. In an interview, an employee in one such internment facilities in Xinjiang spoke about quotas for detainees, the categories into which they are divided, andRead More →
