WASHINGTON—China’s communist regime has continued to engage in “particularly severe violations of religious freedom” in 2025, targeting people in China and abroad, a U.S. religious freedom watchdog said in its annual report released on March 5.
Religious figures and followers who refuse to submit to the Chinese regime’s “intrusive system of control” are subjected to harassment, fines, detention, political reeducation, forced labor, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, and other abuse, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal commission, states in the report.
“The Chinese Communist Party deepened its crackdown on all religious activities that dared to operate outside of its tight-fisted control,” Asif Mahmood, vice chair of the commission, said at the rollout event for the report….
Religious Freedom Violations ‘Particularly Severe’ in China, US Report Says
