China misused Claude to target dissidents, religious minorities, and journalists—including some who write for “Bitter Winter.”
Human Rights
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.
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.
84-Year-Old Female Falun Gong Practitioner Dies in Notorious Heilongjiang Prison
Liu Huiju died after repeated medical emergencies and prolonged pressure from local authorities.
Communist Confession Rituals Return in Hong Kong
A machinery of remorse reminiscent of Stalin and Mao compels dissidents to confess and apologize publicly on TV.
CCP Scholar: China’s New Ethnic Unity Law Moves from Administration to Assimilation
A Party School teacher’s commentary in the “Beijing Daily” reveals how the statute formalizes assimilation of minorities as state doctrine.
July 28: Remembering the Yarkent Massacre
Silence, disappearances, and the erasure of evidence followed the 2014 military assault on Uyghur civilians.
Una comisión de diez académicos publica un estudio exhaustivo sobre Konstantin Rudnev y “Ashram Shambhala”
La publicación anticipada comenzará en “Bitter Winter” el 27 de julio, seguida de un número especial de “The Journal of CESNUR”
Konstantin Rudnev: Eleven Years in the Russian Jails
The long imprisonment in Russia shaped both his present understanding of spirituality and his reflections on a penal system he experienced in its harshest form.