A Swedish human rights activist arrested in China has admitted to crimes on state television, the second Swedish national to feature in a TV confession in recent days, as authorities increasingly turn to such broadcasts in their crackdown on dissent.
Peter Jesper Dahlin, who was initially reported detained last week, had “sponsored activities jeopardising China’s national security”, state news agency Xinhua reported late on Tuesday.
“This is obviously an issue of grave concern for us,” Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, EU ambassador to China, told a press conference on Wednesday. “We do hope [the detentions] are not a ‘new normal’ but we do see an extremely worrying trend, he added, calling for “full transparency and full access” in such cases.
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