By Peter Nyberg
Saturday February 16, 2002
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Ulrik Dahlgren from Kalmar was one of the three Swedes at the demonstration in Tiananmen Square, and two of them have been arrested, as reported. Where the third is, is unclear.
In Kalmar sits Ulrik Dahlgren’s girlfriend Charlotte Folkhammar together with her friend Carol Craulier. They are of course worried for Ulrik Dahlgren, but at the same time they point out that they support his trip and that it was necessary to take action.
“There must be an end to the persecutions of Falungong adherents in China. The regime has said they are going to terminate them,” says Charlotte Folkhammar.
Doesn´t know if he still there
She is in contact with the Falungong movement in Sweden, (…) but still they haven´t found out anything about the arrested. The girlfriend doesn´t know if Ulrik Dahlgren is still in China.
”We don´t know anything more than that two of the Swedes are to be expelled from China. The third Swede has disappeared and one doesn´t know anything about him.”
Ulrik Dahlgren is on of the most prominent people within the Falungong movement in Kalmar. He has held several courses in Emmaboda, Nybro och Kalmar and expressed his renouncement from the Chinese regime.
Seen as a threat
”Falungong had more practitioners than the [members of the] communist party, thus, they were considered as a threat and banned them,” said Ulrik Dahlgren this summer in an interview in Barometern-OT.
He went to China on Monday. Charlotte Folkhammar said that her boyfriend doesn´t think very much about his own security, but thinks of the persecuted practitioners of Falungong.
”He was probably aware of what could happen, but it is more important to help.”
More have been expelled.
Apart from the 40 foreign citizens whom were arrested in Tiananmen Square, another 14 persons were arrested in different hotels in Beijing the day before.
Most of the arrested have already been expelled from the country. (…)
”Of course I am worried, but I think it is very good that he went,” says Charlotte Folkhammar.
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