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Control Intensified on Travels Abroad

The Chinese authorities are expanding their long-term control over private outbound travel for citizens. Last year, the restrictions were applied not only for low-level civil servants and employees of state-run enterprises but also to teachers and health-care workers. To prevent people from traveling abroad, everyone is required to hand over their passports. ...

2019-04-242019-09-11

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Organ Harvesting Tribunal 2019

According to experts that spoke at the second round of hearings of the China Tribunal against organ harvesting, held last weekend in London, the world is turning a blind eye to the “pillaging” of organs carried out with Beijing’s approval, and the practice shows no signs of abating. ...

2019-04-142019-09-11

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Thousands of Uyghurs Detained in a Gansu Prison

As Bitter Winter has previously reported, to hide the mass detention of Uyghurs, the Chinese authorities are transferring large numbers of detainees from the overcrowded prisons and transformation through education camps in Xinjiang to other provinces in China, such as Shaanxi, Gansu, Heilongjiang, and others. ...

2019-04-04

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UK Parliament Debates Forced Live Organ Extraction in China

An in-depth debate at the British Parliament explores the issue of organ harvesting. China is accused of “crimes against humanity, on an industrial scale.” ...

2019-03-302019-09-18

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A Life in Jail: Shouters Co-worker Repeatedly Detained

Numerous Christians who are locked up in Chinese prisons were arrested and sentenced due to their beliefs only. Among them, Christians belonging to denominations blacklisted by the CCP as xie jiao have received the harshest sentences. The Christian group known as the Shouters, which has a long and complicated history, was banned as a xie jiao in 1983, long before the CCP’s list of the xie jiao was established in 1995. ...

2019-03-272019-03-27

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Party Uses Bribes to Break up Underground Church

United Front Work Department dangles money, corrupt business deals as bait to lure underground Catholics into joining the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. ...

2019-03-25

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Followers of Christ Forced to Follow the Party

Bitter Winter has reported about the massive effort underway to register all Christians. The registration work is ongoing, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is more and more putting to use the information collected to transform Chinese belief. ...

2019-03-202019-09-11

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China’s High-Tech Surveillance State: a “Digital Despotism”

Skynet, Sharp Eyes, Operation Knocking on Doors, Web-Cleaning Soldier; these are just some of the terms used by China’s state security to describe the draconian surveillance systems deployed to identify, monitor, track, and persecute scores of millions of Chinese citizens, especially ethnic minorities and religious groups. ...

2019-03-132019-09-11

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Chinese Communist Party Going After the Military’s Christians

Chinese officials instructed a military unit in China’s eastern Shandong province to investigate the religious status of all military personnel, according to an insider. The notice included strict instructions to check and register each individual, including those omitted from previous investigations, such as new recruits, retirees, or those on vacation or hospitalized. All results of the probe will be entered into the “military personnel religious status registration system.” ...

2019-03-112019-09-11

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Reporting Boxes and Tip Lines to Stop Religion in Villages

Religious belief is common among China’s rural population, representing the most significant base of believers. In an effort to attack religion at its core, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been mobilizing the masses to monitor and report each other using a variety of means. The latest tool is the revival of Cultural Revolution-era tip-off measures. ...

2019-03-052019-09-11

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