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2020-12-03 09:23 ET - In the News
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The National Post reports in its Thursday edition that in 2016, Peter Dahlin, a human-rights activist who had lived in Beijing for almost 10 years, was arrested as he was about to leave China. Mr. Dahlin writes that he, a Swedish citizen, spent 23 days in a secret prison, deprived of sleep, kept in solitary confinement and interrogated for hours at a time. He was released only after signing a "confession," and expelled from China. The country has undergone sweeping changes in the two years since Dec. 10, 2018, that day of the brazen detentions, and later disappearances, of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Both Michaels would go on to be accused of vague national security crimes, and instead of being arrested, they would be "disappeared" into what is called an RSDL (residential surveillance at a designated location). Mr. Dahlin is certain that Mr. Kovrig was taken to the very same secret prison where he was held. When in RSDL, you are kept in solitary confinement, with no right to a lawyer or contact with families. In China today, it is no longer enough that police can arrest you, indict you without evidence beyond a coerced confession, and sentence you via courts controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.