Authorities in China’s central province of Henan have subdivided the population into categories, with Christians being classified as the lowest level of society.Read More →
An independent group of overseas Chinese students has hit out at Communist Party-backed student groups on overseas campuses, following reports that they threatened and harassed Uyghur and Tibetan activists campaigning against Beijing’s human rights violations. The Independent Federation of ChineseRead More →
Repeated arrests of believers from Early Rain Covenant Church continue. The details of the beating of one faithful woman illustrate the extent of the injustice. As Bitter Winter reported, on December 9, the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, theRead More →
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has stepped up a nationwide crackdown on Christians, raiding and detaining pastors and members of churches in several locations as urban authorities warn against public Christmas decorations and events. Authorities are undergoing “one of theRead More →
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 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 →
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 →
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist to death for taking an unsanctioned Muslim holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to his brother. Abdughapar Abdurusul, of Bakyol district in IliRead More →
