BITTER WINTER

Bitter Winter

A magazine on religious liberty and human rights

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LATEST ARTICLES

Between Law and Reality: Media and Religious Discrimination

When religious freedom faces a new threat in media reports that obscure and distort reality

Jinan, 90-year-old Falun Gong Practitioner Sentenced to Jail

Because of his health problems, the prison declined to admit him. He is now under house arrest.

Pakistan: Court Challenges the Bias That Confines Minorities to Sanitation Work

The Islamabad High Court has condemned religion-based sanitation job ads, but the practice continues despite constitutional protections.

Police Investigates the Aggressors of Amsterdam’s Lonely Uyghur

What happened in February in The Hague is evidence of China’s transnational repression and should not be condoned.

The Fear of the Jesuits in 17th-century Poland and Lithuania: The First “Cult” Panic

An exploration of anti-Jesuit polemics reveals a much older genealogy behind today’s campaigns against groups branded as outsiders, manipulators, or “cults.”

A House Erased: Beijing Dissident Returns From Prison to Find Her Life Bulldozed

Quan Shixin hoped to return home after serving her sentence. Only, there was no home left.

Breaking Lineage, Breaking Roots:China’s New Law on Ethnic Unity

The newly approved statute institutionalizes the CCP’s harsh attitude toward minorities and their languages and cultures.

The Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan: An Executive Summary

Ahmadis in Pakistan face daily persecution, legally permitted by the Constitution and Penal Code—but it must never be accepted as normal.

Pakistan Christians Call for Justice for Catholic Laborer Found Hanged

Marqas Masih’s death in Sargodha was declared a suicide, but it increasingly appears to be a homicide.

France, Anti-Cult Association UNADFI Loses Again in Court

The Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence stated that its refusal to publish a right of reply from “Non à la Drogue, Oui à la Vie” was unlawful.

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