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Sweden at Risk of Deporting China’s Most Famous Asylum Seeker

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Sweden at Risk of Deporting China’s Most Famous Asylum Seeker
People take part in a demonstration in solidarity with migrants seeking asylum in Europe after fleeing their home countries, in Stockholm, on Sept. 12, 2015. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
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The most famous asylum seeker from China today, Baolige Wurina, is again facing potential denial of his asylum request, deportation to China, and certain persecution. Sweden, otherwise known as a safe haven for the persecuted, risks ruining its reputation due to its sheer ignorance of communist China.

Peter Dahlin
Peter Dahlin
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Peter Dahlin is the founder of the NGO Safeguard Defenders and the co-founder of the Beijing-based Chinese NGO China Action (2007–2016). He is the author of “Trial By Media,” and contributor to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared.” He lived in Beijing from 2007, until detained and placed in a secret jail in 2016, subsequently deported and banned. Prior to living in China, he worked for the Swedish government with gender equality issues, and now lives in Madrid, Spain.
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