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Overestimation of Chinese Police Threatens Rights Defenders

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Overestimation of Chinese Police Threatens Rights Defenders
Police officers patrol an area outside Tiananmen Square on World Press Freedom Day in Beijing on May 3, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
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An overestimation of the technical abilities of the Chinese police leads local activists to give up protecting themselves, including their electronic devices—putting themselves at even greater risks.

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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