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Monday 21-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Christian Nilsson got off the flight, shocked and tired after three days and nights in Chinese police detention.
Christian Nilsson was arrested Thursday on the way from his hotel to a Falun Gong demonstration in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
“Nobody told us why we were arrested, we were pulled into a car, rather violently and brought to a place where we were interrogated,” says Christian Nilsson from Lund.
”I was pushed down to the floor and then they trampled on me. Others amongst us were beaten.”
It took until Sunday before he and the other two arrested Swedes were allowed to contact the Swedish Embassy.
”The police totally ignored our request. I got the feeling they wanted to send us home to Sweden without the Embassy knowing anything of what happened,” says Christian Nilsson.
During the three days and nights he shared a cell with nine others.
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“Most of us are travelling to China to support Falun Gong practitioners there. It’s also about drawing world attention to China’s violation of human rights in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners,” says Janette Wastila, one of those in the reception committee at the airport who had contact with Christian Nilsson during his flight home.
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When the Swedish Falun Gong [practitioners] heard about the police raid in Tiananmen Square Thursday they contacted the Foreign Ministry [UD] to check if Swedes were among the arrested.
The UD hadn’t heard anything at that time, thus it took three days and nights before the Embassy in Beijing got into contact with the arrested,” says Mimmi Svensson from the Swedish Falun Gong movement in Varberg.
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