BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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LATEST ARTICLES

Shunning, Subsidies, and the Secular State: Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Courts of Norway and Sweden

Scandinavian media and politicians targeted a minority’s internal discipline, but judges in Oslo and Stockholm demanded evidence and found none.

Xi Jinping’s War on Humor: Taiwanese Comedian Hit for a Joke

A staged car crash in Taiwan shows how far Beijing goes to punish laughter and how fragile the ruler’s public image has become.

Former Ragya Abbot Sentenced to Five Years

Lobsang Tenpa had already spent months in custody in 2025. He was accused of encouraging devotees to pray for the Dalai Lama.

“Dangerous Justice”: A New Book on the Rudnev Case and Argentina’s Criminal System

Scholars, lawyers, a journalist, and the alleged “victim” examine how prejudice and structural flaws kept a seriously ill man in jail.

The Triple Alliance: The Chinese Communist Party, Japanese Anti-cult Lawyers, and Korean Heresy Hunters

Korean pastors, Japanese leftist attorneys, and Beijing’s Communist bureaucrats have formed a united front against conservative religion; so far, it has been effective.

Repression Without Borders: China Detains Taiwanese Yiguandao Followers

A rising tally of detentions exposes escalating risks for cross‑strait believers.

Konstantin Rudnev, the Altai Kam, and Don Juan

The Russian spiritual teacher compared Siberian shamanism with the Toltec path described by Carlos Castaneda.

Yunnan: 100,000 Farmers Guard Their Dead Against Forced Cremation

For two weeks in September, crowds in Zhenxiong County protected funerals and graves, defending ancestral rites the CCP has tried to erase since the 1950s.

CESNUR 2026 Examines the Unification Church Case in Japan

Speakers from Tokyo and Kanazawa told how pastors, parents, and leftist lawyers joined forces, and what believers now face after the dissolution order.

A Moral Signal in The Hague Against China’s Transnational Repression

The mayor’s reception of the “lonely Uyghur” exposes the political meaning of Chinese violence inside a city of international justice.

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