Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices, a quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. From October to December 2023, CSW recorded 71 incidents of violations affecting religious or belief groups across China. With the new Patriotic Education Law, China’s ongoing Sinicization campaign seems to have reached a new height. …
Under the rule of Xi Jinping the situation for almost every religion or belief community in China has deteriorated amid a worsening picture for human rights across the country, but for groups labelled ‘xie jiao’, this has been a reality for decades.
Despite the Chinese government’s boasting of its progress in promoting the rule of law, confidence in China’s legal system remains low. Religion and belief groups have witnessed how the CCP regime has been effectively strengthening its ‘rule by law’ instead.
