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====''Bitter Winter''====
''Bitter Winter'' was launched in May 2018 as an online magazine which covers [[Freedom of religion in China|religious freedom]] and [[human rights in China]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lemaître |first=Frédéric |date=2019-12-31 |title=En condamnant un pasteur, la Chine réprime le protestantisme, en plein essor |trans-title=By convicting a pastor, China suppresses Protestantism, in full swing |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/12/31/en-condamnant-un-pasteur-la-chine-reprime-le-protestantisme-en-plein-essor_6024475_3210.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309160424/https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/12/31/en-condamnant-un-pasteur-la-chine-reprime-le-protestantisme-en-plein-essor_6024475_3210.html |archive-date=2020-03-09 |access-date=2020-03-12 |work=[[Le Monde]] |location=Paris |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=about/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Tatad |first=Francisco S. |date=2018-10-05 |title=Can the Church survive China's embrace? |url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2018/10/05/opinion/columnists/topanalysis/can-the-church-survive-chinas-embrace/448558/448558/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006040340/https://www.manilatimes.net/2018/10/05/opinion/columnists/topanalysis/can-the-church-survive-chinas-embrace/448558/448558/ |archive-date=2019-10-06 |access-date=2019-10-28 |work=[[The Manila Times]] |language=en}}</ref> According to the magazine it is supported by volunteer contributions and is published daily in five languages.<ref name="about">{{Cite web |date=2018-04-24 |title=About |url=https://bitterwinter.org/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114114814/https://bitterwinter.org/about/ |archive-date=2019-11-14 |access-date=2019-10-28 |website=Bitter Winter |language=en}}</ref>

Some of the magazine's correspondents were arrested in late 2018 by the authorities for their work documenting and publicizing [[antireligious campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cielo |first=Settimo |date=2018-12-29 |title=Christmas Behind Bars In China, For the Martyrs of the Free Press |url=http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2018/12/29/christmas-behind-bars-in-china-for-the-martyrs-of-the-free-press/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229192127/http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2018/12/29/christmas-behind-bars-in-china-for-the-martyrs-of-the-free-press/ |archive-date=2018-12-29 |access-date=2022-07-15 |magazine=[[L'Espresso]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name="lastampa">{{Cite news |date=2018-12-28 |title=Arrestati in Cina 45 giornalisti, trasmettevano notizie al magazine italiano "Bitter Winter" |trans-title=45 journalists arrested in China, they were broadcasting news to Italian magazine "Bitter Winter" |url=https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/28/vaticaninsider/arrestati-in-cina-giornalistitrasmettevano-notizie-al-magazine-italiano-bitter-winter-rug2VZ0QdLFVoTauXCbsGJ/pagina.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228200229/https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/28/vaticaninsider/arrestati-in-cina-giornalistitrasmettevano-notizie-al-magazine-italiano-bitter-winter-rug2VZ0QdLFVoTauXCbsGJ/pagina.html |archive-date=2018-12-28 |work=[[La Stampa]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/media-01312019162346.html|title=Media Outlet Monitoring Uyghur Persecution in China Vows to Continue Work Despite Ban, Arrests|last=Lipes|first=Joshua|date=January 31, 2019|work=[[Radio Free Asia]]|access-date=October 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201033545/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/media-01312019162346.html|archive-date=February 1, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=human>{{Cite web|url=https://hrwf.eu/chinese-ministry-of-state-security-takes-over-the-campaign-against-bitter-winter/|title=Chinese ministry of state security takes over the campaign against Bitter Winter|date=August 7, 2018|website=Human Rights Without Frontiers|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029094441/https://hrwf.eu/chinese-ministry-of-state-security-takes-over-the-campaign-against-bitter-winter/|archive-date=October 29, 2019|access-date=2019-10-06}}</ref> The [[United States Department of State]] in the chapter on China of its 2019 Human Rights Report noted that, among 45 ''Bitter Winter'' contributors the magazine reported had been arrested in 2018, in 2019, 4 of the 22 detained in [[Xinjiang]] were released, and among the 23 detained in [[Henan]], [[Fujian]], [[Zhejiang]] and [[Shanxi]], "several had been released after indoctrination training," while "online media reported that police tortured" those arrested in Fujian.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2019-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf|title=China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) 2019 Human Rights Report|author=U.S.Department of State|date=2020|access-date=March 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313194153/https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2019-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf|archive-date=March 13, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

The same United States Department of State quoted repeatedly ''Bitter Winter'' as "an online magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China" in the China section of its 2018 International Religious Freedom Report.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2018-INTERNATIONAL-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-REPORT.pdf|title=China (includes Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Macau) 2018 International Religious Freedom Report|author=U.S.Department of State|date=2019|access-date=March 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807101350/https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2018-INTERNATIONAL-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-REPORT.pdf|archive-date=August 7, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The American [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] magazine ''[[World (magazine)|World]]'' called ''Bitter Winter'' "a thorn in the side" of the [[Chinese Communist Party]], and reported that in a secret document "the Chinese government has called ''Bitter Winter'' an 'overseas hostile website' [境外敌对网站] and instructed its intelligence agency, the [[Ministry of State Security (China)|Ministry of State Security]], to investigate the group."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cheng |first=June |date=2019-12-20 |title=Watchdog on the web |url=https://world.wng.org/2019/12/watchdog_on_the_web |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128153113/https://world.wng.org/2019/12/watchdog_on_the_web |archive-date=2020-01-28 |access-date=2020-03-12 |work=World Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-08-03 |title=Chinese Ministry of State Security Takes Over the Campaign Against Bitter Winter |url=https://bitterwinter.org/state-security-takes-over-campaign-against-bitter-winter/ |access-date=2022-07-15 |website=Bitter Winter |language=en-US}}</ref>