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The Chinese Regime Puts Its Cruelty on Full Display Ahead of Olympic Games

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The Chinese Regime Puts Its Cruelty on Full Display Ahead of Olympic Games
Zhang Qing (L), the wife of Chinese human rights activist Yang Maodong, also known as Guo Feixiong, speaks at a press conference to raise awareness about the situation of her husband, in Washington, on Oct. 29, 2013. Her daughter Yang Tianjiao looks on. Zhang passed away on Jan. 10, 2022. Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images
Peter Dahlin
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Human rights activist and writer Yang Maodong, also known by the pen name Guo Feixiong, faces the risk of becoming the defining victim of the Chinese regime’s increasingly harsh abuses.

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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