Bitter Winter
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
NEWS FROM CHINA
Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism: Now with Extra Fire Safety
Beijing’s new Tibet boss, Hu Changsheng, met the false Panchen Lama in a political puppet show that put fire extinguishers at center stage.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD
The False Apostles: How Putin and Kirill Sell Bogus “Traditional Values” to Europe’s Right
A political family known for defending life, family, and national sovereignty convened a conference in Brussels to expose Russia’s propaganda targeting conservatives.
TESTIMONIES FROM CHINA
Ethnic Unity: China Celebrates a Law of Erasure
Beijing’s first Ethnic Unity and Progress Publicity Week presented forced assimilation as harmony.
TESTIMONIES FROM THE WORLD
The Unification Church Case in Japan: The Confessions of a Repentant Anti‑Cult Pastor
How Haruhisa Nakagawa’s encounters with believers, activists, and victims revealed a human rights crisis concealed behind a powerful public narrative.
FEATURED CHINA
The Agreement Beijing Did Not Erase
China inherited a territorial claim. It also inherited an unanswered political obligation to Uyghurs.
FEATURED INTERNATIONAL
Pretrial Detention, Media, and Politics in Argentina: From Procedural Risk to “Judicial Danger”
Inside the courtroom calculus where reputations, headlines, and imagined futures decide who stays behind bars.
OP-EDS CHINA
Who Owns “China”? A Geographic Name, a National Identity, and the Peoples Left Out
What’s in a name? What is “China” and who is “Chinese”? How the term “Chinese nation” was socially and politically constructed to promote Han imperialism.
OP-EDS INTERNATIONAL
Lidin, Rudnev, and the Blind Spots of Post-Soviet Skepticism
How old ideological habits survive in new forms and shape the way some Russian skeptics reconstruct the Rudnev case
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
日本の統一教会事件:悔い改めた反カルト牧師の告白
信者、活動家、被害者たちとの出会いを通じて、中川晴久牧師が目の当たりにしたのは、支配的な社会的言説の陰に隠された人権危機だった。






