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![The eleven jailed leaders of Puerta de la Montaña. Source: Alliance Defending Freedom.](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/jailed-leaders-of-Puerta-de-la-Montana.jpeg)
![The eleven jailed leaders of Puerta de la Montaña. Source: Alliance Defending Freedom.](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/jailed-leaders-of-Puerta-de-la-Montana.jpeg)
Puerta de la Montaña: Inter-American Court on Human Rights Orders Nicaragua to Free Jailed Protestants
NEWS FROM CHINA
![Golog, Qinghai: After 30 Years, a Prestigious Tibetan School Is Liquidated](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/teachers-and-staff-of-the-Jigme-Gyaltsen-Nationalities-Vocational-High-School-320x180.png)
![Golog, Qinghai: After 30 Years, a Prestigious Tibetan School Is Liquidated](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/teachers-and-staff-of-the-Jigme-Gyaltsen-Nationalities-Vocational-High-School-320x180.png)
Golog, Qinghai: After 30 Years, a Prestigious Tibetan School Is Liquidated
The Jigme Gyaltsen Nationalities Vocational High School was praised even by Communist authorities. But that it preserved Tibetan culture could not be tolerated.
![Yet Another Xie Jiao: Crackdown on an Offshoot of “Human Universal Science”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-29-320x180.jpg)
![Yet Another Xie Jiao: Crackdown on an Offshoot of “Human Universal Science”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-29-320x180.jpg)
Yet Another Xie Jiao: Crackdown on an Offshoot of “Human Universal Science”
The police believed they had eradicated the Qigong movement led by Zhang Weixiang, who died in 2006. But the “Datong Base Faction” continued to flourish.
News from the world
![Puerta de la Montaña: Inter-American Court on Human Rights Orders Nicaragua to Free Jailed Protestants](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/jailed-leaders-of-Puerta-de-la-Montana-320x180.jpeg)
![Puerta de la Montaña: Inter-American Court on Human Rights Orders Nicaragua to Free Jailed Protestants](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/jailed-leaders-of-Puerta-de-la-Montana-320x180.jpeg)
Puerta de la Montaña: Inter-American Court on Human Rights Orders Nicaragua to Free Jailed Protestants
They were falsely accused of money laundering and sentenced to jail penalties ranging from twelve to fifteen years.
![US Federal District Court: School Cannot Ban Christian Organization Due to Its Conservative Views on Sexuality](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-41-320x180.jpg)
![US Federal District Court: School Cannot Ban Christian Organization Due to Its Conservative Views on Sexuality](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-41-320x180.jpg)
US Federal District Court: School Cannot Ban Christian Organization Due to Its Conservative Views on Sexuality
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes would appoint as “leaders” only students subscribing to its prohibition of homosexual acts and sexual relations outside of marriage.
![Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light: A New Humanitarian Crisis in Türkiye](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-39-320x180.jpg)
![Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light: A New Humanitarian Crisis in Türkiye](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-39-320x180.jpg)
Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light: A New Humanitarian Crisis in Türkiye
Refugees not allowed to leave for the European Union settled peacefully in Edirne. Now the government wants to expel them from there, too.
Testimonies from China
![The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-48-320x180.jpg)
![The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-48-320x180.jpg)
The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”
By Ruth Ingram
29 of her relatives are detained, disappeared, dead, or still serving lengthy prison sentences. She tells her—and their—story to “Bitter Winter.”
![The “Ink Girl” Six Years After: Is She Alive or Dead?](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-2-12-320x180.jpg)
![The “Ink Girl” Six Years After: Is She Alive or Dead?](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-2-12-320x180.jpg)
The “Ink Girl” Six Years After: Is She Alive or Dead?
By Hu Zimo
Dong Yaoqiong sprayed with ink a portrait of Xi Jinping on July 4, 2018, and was taken to a psychiatric hospital. Her friends ask the CCP to prove she is still alive.
![Hong Kong: Pro-Democracy Singer Denise Ho Harassed Again](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-14-320x180.jpg)
![Hong Kong: Pro-Democracy Singer Denise Ho Harassed Again](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-14-320x180.jpg)
Hong Kong: Pro-Democracy Singer Denise Ho Harassed Again
By Gladys Kwok
She is no longer able to book any public performance venue. A live-streamed concert in a private one was interrupted by the police citing the Noise Control Ordinance.
Testimonies from the World
![Hate Crimes Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan: The Victims Speak](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Japan-Branch-Office-of-the-Jehovahs-Witnesses-320x180.png)
![Hate Crimes Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan: The Victims Speak](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Japan-Branch-Office-of-the-Jehovahs-Witnesses-320x180.png)
Hate Crimes Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan: The Victims Speak
The anti-cult campaigns following the assassination of Shinzo Abe generated not only hate speech but physical violence as well. Two women tell their stories.
![Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light Members Persecuted in Egypt](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AROPL-members-320x180.png)
![Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light Members Persecuted in Egypt](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AROPL-members-320x180.png)
Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light Members Persecuted in Egypt
A long history of repression has forced believers to flee the country. Some are now seeking asylum in Hong Kong.
![France: How “Victims” of “Cults” Are Fabricated](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Dercle-1-320x180.jpeg)
![France: How “Victims” of “Cults” Are Fabricated](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Dercle-1-320x180.jpeg)
France: How “Victims” of “Cults” Are Fabricated
A woman accused of being a “cultist sexual predator” was kept in jail until she accepted to declare herself a “victim” of the “guru” and became an anti-cult lecturer.
Interviews
![The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-48.jpg)
![The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-48.jpg)
The Story of Zuhre Sultan, Uyghur Exile: “The CCP Took Away My Entire Family”
By Ruth Ingram
29 of her relatives are detained, disappeared, dead, or still serving lengthy prison sentences. She tells her—and their—story to “Bitter Winter.”
Op-eds China
![Taipei’s Intelligence: CCP Manipulates Exchanges Between Taoist Temples in Taiwan and Mainland China](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-50.jpg)
![Taipei’s Intelligence: CCP Manipulates Exchanges Between Taoist Temples in Taiwan and Mainland China](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-50.jpg)
Taipei’s Intelligence: CCP Manipulates Exchanges Between Taoist Temples in Taiwan and Mainland China
Quoting “Bitter Winter,” Taiwan’s National Security Bureau warns against controlled religious events and “fake academic conferences.”
Featured China
![Anti-Cult Propaganda in Ulugqat County, Xinjiang—Where There Are No “Cults”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-32.jpg)
![Anti-Cult Propaganda in Ulugqat County, Xinjiang—Where There Are No “Cults”](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-32.jpg)
Anti-Cult Propaganda in Ulugqat County, Xinjiang—Where There Are No “Cults”
By Zeng Liqin
For thirteen years a “horseback anti-cult police squad” has visited herders who have never met a “cult.” Why?
Op-eds International
![The Absurd Case of the Family Federation in Japan](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-54.jpg)
![The Absurd Case of the Family Federation in Japan](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-54.jpg)
The Absurd Case of the Family Federation in Japan
A victim is treated as a perpetrator, to the point that the Japanese government is requesting its dissolution as a religious organization.
Featured International
![Theosophy, Lucifer, and The Great Initiates: Rediscovering Édouard Schuré](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-43.jpg)
![Theosophy, Lucifer, and The Great Initiates: Rediscovering Édouard Schuré](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-43.jpg)
Theosophy, Lucifer, and The Great Initiates: Rediscovering Édouard Schuré
The French Theosophist had an enormous influence on European philosophy, literature, and the visual arts of the Belle Époque. Yet, he is almost forgotten today.
Documents and translations
![La Oscura Internacional de los Antisectas. 2. Coordinación Internacional](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-49-320x180.jpg)
![La Oscura Internacional de los Antisectas. 2. Coordinación Internacional](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-49-320x180.jpg)
La Oscura Internacional de los Antisectas. 2. Coordinación Internacional
No hay una única “mano oculta” que guía a los movimientos antisectas en todo el mundo. Pero hay varios niveles de coordinación internacional. Rosita Šorytė* * Ponencia presentada en la conferencia «Discriminación y Criminalización por Razones Religiosas y Espirituales en Argentina: Desafíos Jurídicos en un Contexto Democrático Diverso», Palacio de la Legislatura, Buenos Aires. 19 […]
![La Oscura Internacional de los Antisectas. 1. Seis ejemplos nacionales](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-46-320x180.jpg)
![La Oscura Internacional de los Antisectas. 1. Seis ejemplos nacionales](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BITTER-WINTER-46-320x180.jpg)
La Oscura Internacional de los Antisectas. 1. Seis ejemplos nacionales
La oposición a las «sectas» organizada es diferente en los distintos países. Sin embargo, surgen temas y características comunes.
![エホバの証人に関するMIVILUDESの報告書の一部をフランスの行政裁判所が名誉毀損と判断](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Paris-Administrative-Court-320x180.jpeg)
![エホバの証人に関するMIVILUDESの報告書の一部をフランスの行政裁判所が名誉毀損と判断](https://bitterwinter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Paris-Administrative-Court-320x180.jpeg)
エホバの証人に関するMIVILUDESの報告書の一部をフランスの行政裁判所が名誉毀損と判断
パリ行政裁判所は,エホバの証人が児童への性的虐待を当局に報告しない,あるいは子どもに教育を受けさせないようにしているとの主張は「事実誤認」と判断。