Tiananmen Square, Uyghur Court, Hong Kong Square and Tibet Hill may become main thoroughfares around the soon to be built Chinese embassy in London.
London: Reminders of CCP Oppression May Surround the World’s Largest Chinese Embassy
The Uyghur Tribunal’s Second Session Launched in London
A stream of Chinese government invective heralded the start of the second set of hearings of the Uyghur Tribunal in London last week.
The Tiananmen Museum Is Dead, Long Live the Tiananmen Museum!
The Chinese Communist Party police raided last week the Hong Kong exhibition commemorating the 1989 tragedy. But the museum lives online.
News From the World
The England-Wales Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Jehovah’s Witnesses and the So-called Two-Witness Rule
The rule that two witnesses are needed refers to ecclesiastical governance only, and has nothing to do with the organization’s interaction with secular authorities.
The England-Wales Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and the Jehovah’s Witnesses
The report is better than others, and acknowledges improvements in the Witnesses’ child-protection policies, but is often misinterpreted by the media.
Rastafarians: South Africa “Private Marijuana” Bill Fails to Cover Religious Use
They are joined by other groups protesting because, while liberalizing at-home consumption, the new law would keep criminalizing use in sacred ceremonies.
Testimonies From China
Xinjiang: Relatives of Refugees Who Speak Abroad Manipulated, Jailed, Tortured
Those who managed to escape tell the truth about the horror of the camps. The CCP compels their relatives to denounce them, those who don’t end up in jail.
Rape, Forced Prostitution of Uyghur and Kazakh Women
Survivors believe this is a deliberate strategy to humiliate both female and male Muslims in Xinjiang.
Shouter Christians in Beijing Sentenced to Three Years in Jail
The decision confirms that Article 300 continues to be applied to the movement, which was banned as a xie jiao in 1983.
Testimonies From the World
FECRIS Admits: Hamburg Case Lost Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Was “A Lesson”
While in a public press release the lost case was presented as a victory, in its General Assembly the organization acknowledged things went differently.
Film on Lawyer Who Molested Refugee Clients Honored Internationally
Attorney David Bitel died five years ago. “Devil in a Lawyers Suit”, the movie that premiered on Bitter Winter, is now winning awards.
Pakistan: Charges Against 8-Year-Old Dropped, Problems Remain
After international protests, Prime Minister intervenes and prosecution is stopped. But the boy is still at risk of private vendetta, and unjust laws remain.
Interviews
Tiananmen, 1989: “I Climbed Up the Tank, and Jumped Off the Other Side”
Rose Tang, then a student protest leader, discusses with Bitter Winter those terrible hours and their implications for the current situation.
Op-eds China
Now We Know: Xinjiang, Xi Jinping Is Responsible
Elusive links that tie the Chinese President Xi Jinping directly with mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiamg have come to light.
Featured China
Create Abundance/Spiritual Growth: Xie Jiao or Spy Ring?
Several CCP media attacked a movement that in Canada, in connection with a mysterious murder, had come under suspicion of being a CCP front.
Op-eds International
The Persecution of the Ahmadis in Pakistan. 2. The Lahore Riots of 1953
The secular nature of Pakistan came immediately under attack by political Islam. 2,000 Ahmadis were slaughtered in the riots, until martial law was imposed.
Featured International
A New Book on “La Famille”
Journalist Nicolas Jacquard has produced a book that is much more ambitious than his colleague Suzanne Privat’s, but still relies too much on “apostate” ex-members.
Documents and Translations
Un nouveau livre sur « La Famille »
Le journaliste Nicolas Jacquard a produit un ouvrage bien plus ambitieux que sa collègue Suzanne Privat, mais qui demeure trop lié aux anciens membres « apostats »
L’excommunication : comment concilier des libertés et des intérêts divergents
La décision du tribunal de Gand de déclarer « illégale » l’exclusion pratiquée par les Témoins de Jéhovah ne tient pas compte des précédents verdicts rendus en Europe et en Belgique.
La décision du tribunal de Gand au sujet des Témoins de Jéhovah : anomalie ou nouvelle réalité ?
Dans un jugement sans précédent, les juges ont renversé l’interprétation consacrée des articles 9, 10, 11 de la Convention européenne des Droits de l’Homme.
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