Gao Zhisheng

For those of you who understand Swedish out there, I warmly recommend an interview with Chinese lawyer and human rights activist Gao Zhisheng, in today's edition of Dagens Nyheter.

Gao is one of the most outspoken Chinese dissidents and has increasingly been subject to government persecution since he wrote a letter of protest to Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao in September last year. In today's article he wonders why the world isn't doing more when the facts about China's human rights violations are widely known. Ironically, Gao is doing more from Beijing than Sweden is from its safe haven thousands of miles from where the persecution takes place...