25-01-2016 19:17 via theguardian.com

China frees Swedish human rights activist

Peter Dahlin, who worked with Chinese human rights lawyers, had been held on suspicion of endangering state securityChina has released a Swedish human rights activist it had taken into custody earlier this month and accused of being a foreign agent trying to undermine the Communist party, the Swedish foreign ministry has said.Peter Dahlin, 35, is thought to have left the country on a flight from Beijing to Stockholm on Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for his human rights organisation, Chinese U
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