China : A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China

Some nights Peter Dahlin says he tucks a “big-ass knife” under his bed in case intruders come for him as he dozes; others he cannot sleep at all. “They’ve kidnapped people several times here before,” says the 36-year-old Swedish human rights activist, chain-smoking Marlboro cigarettes as he remembers the 23 days he spent in secret detention in China. It has been a year since Dahlin became one of the first foreign victims of President Xi Jinping’s war on dissent. Read full article