Swedish activist Peter Dahlin. (TWITTER)
The Chinese Government has released and deported Peter Dahlin, co-founder of the NGO China Action, who had been detained since the beginning of January. Dahlin, of 35 years, fue liberado tras un "contacto frecuente entre el Ministerio de Suecia y los representantes chinos", they point out from the Foreign Office of Sweden.
EFE. 26.01.2016 – 04:09h The Chinese Government has released and deported Peter Dahlin, co-founder of the NGO China Action, who had been detained since the beginning of January accused of endangering the security of the State with his organization, The Swedish Embassy in Beijing informed Efe this Monday.
Dahlin, of 35 years, fue liberado tras un "contacto frecuente entre el Ministerio de Suecia y los representantes chinos", says a statement from the Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, to which Efe had access. The Swedish activist disappeared when he went to the Beijing airport on 3 January to take a flight to Thailand with his girlfriend, of Chinese origin and whose whereabouts are unknown, and the authorities confirmed his arrest ten days later, which was carried out in the midst of an unprecedented campaign of repression against human rights lawyers. Wallström confirms that, for now, Dahlin ha podido ya "reunirse con su familia en Suecia", without specifying when.
The swedish, whose NGO promotes the development of the rule of law in China, apareció en la cadena nacional de la televisión china CCTV la semana pasada para confesar que había "violado la ley china" y "causado daño al Gobierno chino", among other things. Several members of his organization considered the confession, which usually represents a mitigating factor in the sentence in the Chinese judicial system, como "falsa" y "absurda". CCTV then argued that the Swedish citizen worked in China as a kind of foreign agent to undermine the power of the Chinese Communist Party and threaten state security.. She further , Chinese authorities accused Dahlin of receiving undeclared money through his NGO and carrying out irregular activities in connection with the local Fengrui law firm., Persecuted by Beijing and known for defending important human rights cases. At the moment, It is unknown if charges against Dahlin have been dropped., whose case and those of others against community citizens aroused the concern of the delegation of the European Union (UE) in china. Two more activists still detained in China The community ambassador in Beijing, Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, urgió la semana pasada "transparencia total y acceso completo" to Dahlin and his fellow Swede Gui Minhai, as well as the British Lee Po, of Hong Kong origin and who were part of a group of five booksellers and publishers from the former British colony who have disappeared since the end of the year.
Gui Minhai apareció antes que Dahlin "confesando" his crimes on Chinese television, although family members and other people around him questioned the veracity of the testimony. About Gui's arrest, Wallström manifiesta en el comunicado su "preocupación" y subraya "nuestros esfuerzos incesantes para arrojar claridad a su situación y garantizar que sea visitado con continuidad".
Regarding Lee Po, -whose name had been reported to be Lee Bo-, el Gobierno chino aseguró ayer que habrá "un juicio justo y práctico" about your case, después de que éste se reuniera con su mujer en un lugar secreto de China recientemente y asegurara en una misiva estar cooperando "voluntariamente" in an investigation. Lee Po and Gui Minhai are part of a group of five Hong Kong publishers and booksellers who mysteriously disappeared between last October and December.. All cases take place amid an unprecedented campaign of repression by the Chinese regime against human rights lawyers., among them from the Fengrui firm, with around 300 interrogated scholars, detained or placed under residential surveillance since July.
