Bitter Winter
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
NEWS FROM CHINA
The Xi’an Zion’s Light Church Case Reaches Shanghai: Another Pastor Detained
Police pressure expands from Shaanxi to the coast as lawyers and families struggle to defend detained Christians.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD
OneTaste: A Warning in Geneva Against the Misuse of Trafficking Laws
CAP‑LC alerts the United Nations Human Rights Council to the dangers revealed by the conviction of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz.
TESTIMONIES FROM CHINA
Ethnic Unity: China Celebrates a Law of Erasure
Beijing’s first Ethnic Unity and Progress Publicity Week presented forced assimilation as harmony.
TESTIMONIES FROM THE WORLD
The Unification Church Case in Japan: The Confessions of a Repentant Anti‑Cult Pastor
How Haruhisa Nakagawa’s encounters with believers, activists, and victims revealed a human rights crisis concealed behind a powerful public narrative.
FEATURED CHINA
The Agreement Beijing Did Not Erase
China inherited a territorial claim. It also inherited an unanswered political obligation to Uyghurs.
FEATURED INTERNATIONAL
Pretrial Detention, Media, and Politics in Argentina: From Procedural Risk to “Judicial Danger”
Inside the courtroom calculus where reputations, headlines, and imagined futures decide who stays behind bars.
OP-EDS CHINA
Is China Triggering Another Tragedy Like the One That Occurred in Nepal-Tibet?
Challenging nature in such remote places is dangerous. Despite warnings, Beijing is doing just that, with no regard for human lives.
OP-EDS INTERNATIONAL
Lidin, Rudnev, and the Blind Spots of Post-Soviet Skepticism
How old ideological habits survive in new forms and shape the way some Russian skeptics reconstruct the Rudnev case
INTERVIEWS
A Case Built on Sand? Konstantin Rudnev Speaks Out After House Arrest Is Revoked
The prosecutors’ accusations against Rudnev deserves to be examined in detail—and he should be allowed to present his version to the public.
DOCUMENT AND TRANSLATIONS
家庭連合への解散命令:司法の危機に立ち向かう三人の声
一つのナラティブがいかに制度をのみ込み、信教の自由を危機にさらしたのか。文芸評論家、弁護士、元国会議員の三人が検証する。 マッシモ・イントロヴィニエ Read the original article in English. 鼎談:徳永信一氏、浜田聡氏、小川榮太郎氏...






