BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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LATEST ARTICLES

Pakistan: Targeted Killing of an Ahmadi Raises Fears of Renewed Violence

A deadly attack in Mandi Bahauddin intensifies concern over the safety of Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the persistence of anti‑Ahmadi incitement.

China: “If You Defend House Churches, We Will Shut Down Your Law Firm”

An attorney was forced to leave China after representing Beijing’s Zion Church. Authorities told her and her colleagues they should dissolve their firm—or else.

Preventive Detention: International Standards, European Practice, and the Argentine Drift

A measure conceived as exceptional becomes routine, revealing how prolonged detention undermines the presumption of innocence and distorts the criminal process.

Tibet: The Mudslide Buried Homes, the Communist Party Buried the Numbers

1,000 casualties on the Nepalese side of the border, less than 20 on the Tibetan one, said the CCP. If you dispute the figure, you go to jail.

Let’s Give Anti-Cultists a Platform—and a Rebuttal

The global map of religious persecution is disheartening. Challenging media narratives could begin by putting journalists, anti-cultists, and the groups they criticize in the same room.

How Beijing Turned Uyghur Childhood Into a State Project

Official documents trace a policy chain from preschool language instruction and boarding schools to mainland classes, vocational training, and labor transfer.

The Cult of Nyabingi in Rwanda. 3. The Revolt of Ndochibiri

After the repression of its second insurrection, the Nyabingi movement went underground.

The Nepal-Tibet Catastrophe: What Is China Hiding?

Nepal counted its dead and opened its data; Tibet’s losses vanished behind China’s digital erasure.

A Yunnan House Church Preacher Faces Criminal Charges

The case of Sun Chao from Qujing’s Philadelphia Church shows how ordinary believers are swept into the tightening campaign against unregistered congregations.

The Cult of Nyabingi in Rwanda. 2. Muhumuza’s Insurrection

How an exiled queen claimed to be an incarnation of the spirit and transformed a spiritual movement into an anti-colonial revolt.

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