- Tom Phillips, A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from 习近平 (Xí Jìnpíng)’s new China, The Guardian, January 3, 2017
Peter Dahlin spent 23 days in a “black prison” in 北京 (Běijīng), where he says he was deprived of sleep and questioned with a “communication enhancement” machine. Here he tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People’s Republic. [Read more].
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The arrest of Peter Dahlin, as described to the Chiang Mai-based Mexican-American artist Nicolas Luna Fleck.
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The activist says his interrogators then refused to let him sleep until he offered them detailed information and only relented after he protested to the centre’s boss – a woman who gave her name as Mrs. Zhang – that his treatment violated the UN convention against torture, which China ratified in 1988.
“She was very upset”, Dahlin says of her reaction. “And went on about how nicely I’m being treated”. [Read more]. |
Peter Dahlin faces his interrogators. Illustration: Nicolas Luna Fleck.
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