Department for Foreign Affairs
103 33 Stockholm
Dear Anna Lindh,
In the media today we heard how about 40 demonstrators, of which six persons (actually it was eight, translators remark) are known to be from Sweden, who have been arrested by the Chinese police after having demonstrated against the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China. According to the information several of the demonstrators have been beaten by the Chinese police.
The communist one party regime in China are continously violating human rights. They even brutally crack down on each slightest grievance or protest. Precisely the continuous assaults and the comprehensive persecution of the Falun Gong movement is a sign that the regime can not tolerate any expression that they don´t have full control over.
Today’s event is extraordinarily serious and demands a forceful statement from the Swedish government saying that Sweden does not in anyway accept the way in which the Chinese regime handles peaceful demonstrators. The fact that it is also innocent Swedish citizens who have lost their freedom and have been beaten makes the question even more serious.
Regarding your strong and known engagement for human rights I urge you to act as soon as possible in order to free the Swedish citizens and to request that the Chinese regime fully accepts fundamental human rights.
With kind regards
Cecilia Malmström (Liberal party )
Member of the European parliament
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