Bitter Winter
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
NEWS FROM CHINA
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.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD
The OneTaste Case Reaches Warsaw’s OSCE-ODIHR Meeting
CAP-LC warns that expanding coercion to “psychological influence” endangers spiritual, therapeutic, and self-development communities.
TESTIMONIES FROM CHINA
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.
TESTIMONIES FROM THE WORLD
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.
FEATURED CHINA
The Paper Trail of Repression: Chinese Procurement Records Expose the Surveillance Industry
A C4ADS study follows tenders and invoices across Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Hong Kong to name the companies supplying Beijing’s watchers.
FEATURED INTERNATIONAL
“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.
OP-EDS CHINA
“Bitter Winter” Hero of the Week: Palau’s President Sends China Packing
The leader of an island nation of 18,000 people answered Chinese threats over Taiwan with a courage many larger governments seem to have misplaced.
OP-EDS INTERNATIONAL
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.
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
三者同盟:中国共産党、日本の反カルト弁護士、韓国の異端ハンター
韓国の牧師、日本の左派弁護士、そして北京の共産党官僚が、保守的な宗教に対抗する統一戦線を形成している。これまでのところ、その戦線は成果を上げている。






