A Tibetan herder and mother of three in Nagchu prefecture’s Driru county died in August after being tortured in Chinese custody, while her cousin is still being held by police, rights groups and sources in the region say. Lhamo, aRead More →
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, 20 plainclothes police officers arrested a 17-year-oldRead More →
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 disabled as a result. “The CCP’s detention houseRead More →
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 psychological warfare used to break people’s will using loud musicRead More →
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 1, Father Liu Maochun from the Diocese ofRead More →
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, Church of Almighty God member Zhou Shi from southwestern ChinaRead More →
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 Jianshui county, in Honghe Hani and YiRead More →
A new film tells the story of a devotee who joined The Church of Almighty God at its beginnings. She was hunted, detained, and tortured ever since. by Massimo Introvigne A 13-year-old girl is arrested at a religious gathering inRead More →
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 another nationwide crackdown campaign against The Church of Almighty God (CAG), theRead More →
State media organizations and Chinese state security police have produced dozens of televised forced “confessions” in the years since ruling Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping took power, often involving severe duress and torture, according to a recent submissionRead More →
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 Chinese province of Shandong. Ding has been denied permissionRead More →
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 been built in almost every prison in China, where inmatesRead More →
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 Almighty God (CAG) is aRead More →
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 reported, members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG)—the single most persecutedRead More →
Most of the detained have been monitored for days, and some elderly people were tortured to make them disclose information about fellow believers. by Yao Zhangjin Amid the coronavirus outbreak, The Church of Almighty God (CAG), the single most-persecuted religious movement in China,Read More →
A member of The Church of Almighty God recalls his time in detention after he was arrested and later sentenced for his faith. by Yang Luguang Qi Qiang, a member of The Church of Almighty God (CAG) from the easternRead More →
In the United States and other countries, June 21 is Father’s Day. A member of the Church of Almighty God tells Bitter Winter the sad story of her beloved and persecuted father. by Bai Shengyi Arrested, tortured, disabled, separated, reluctant even toRead More →
Responding to the four-year jail sentence handed to Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng after a secret trial, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Nicholas Bequelin said: “Yu Wensheng’s sentencing is nothing but political persecution dressed up as legal process. NotRead More →
Report details closure of religious venues and detention of members of minority groups. The communist government in China has intensified its mass detention of people as part of its accelerated sinicization that clamps down on freedom of religion, says theRead More →
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 In face of internationalRead More →
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 Church of Almighty GodRead More →
