The EU envoy to China expressed "deep concern" on Wednesday (20 January) about the treatment of EU nationals involved in human rights activities in China.
China's crackdown on human right activists, lawyers and journalists has intensified recently and even EU citizens are now targeted.
"We do see an extremely worrying trend," Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, the EU ambassador to China, told reporters in Beijing.
On Tuesday Peter Dahlin, a Swedish co-founder of the Chinese Urgent Act...
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