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Beijing reaffirms jailed Swedish publisher is a Chinese citizen
Published on 16/10/2025
» BEIJING - China has reaffirmed that jailed Swedish publisher Gui Minhai is a Chinese national and it firmly opposes any country, organisation or person interfering with its judicial sovereignty in any form, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Hong Kong places ‘bounties’ on activists abroad
Published on 04/07/2023
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s leader has called on eight overseas activists to turn themselves in, a day after police put out bounties on them for violating the Chinese territory’s national security law.
China forcibly returned nearly 10,000 in overseas crackdown: report
AFP, Published on 19/01/2022
» BEIJING: Beijing has forced nearly 10,000 Chinese overseas nationals to return since 2014 using coercive means outside the justice system, according to a new report.
China sentences Swedish bookseller abducted in Thailand to 10 years
AFP, Published on 25/02/2020
» BEIJING: A Chinese court has sentenced Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai to 10 years in prison on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad in a case that has rattled relations between Beijing and Stockholm.
Ex-Swedish envoy indicted in HK bookseller case
Associated Press, Published on 09/12/2019
» STOCKHOLM: Prosecutors in Sweden said Monday the country's former ambassador to China has been indicted for unauthorised contacts with a foreign power for organising a meeting in Stockholm between the daughter of a Swedish publisher detained in China, China's ambassador and two businessmen about the possible release of her father.
The long arm of the Communist Party
News, Published on 16/05/2019
» Gui Minhai is a Swedish citizen, who was a Hong Kong publisher and owner of a bookstore, Mighty Current, that sold political books that were banned by the Communist Party of China (CPC). On Oct 17, 2015 Mr Gui was abducted from his country home in Thailand. Cameras in the building he lived in show that he was taken away by two Chinese-speaking men, believed to be agents from the CPC's security service. The abduction was denied by Chinese authorities and ignored by Thailand.
Sweden replaces China envoy in furore over bookseller
Reuters, Published on 14/02/2019
» STOCKHOLM: Sweden said on Thursday it had replaced its ambassador to China after accusations she held an unauthorised meeting in a quest to free dissident bookseller Gui Minhai.
Horror of the disappeared
News, Editorial, Published on 11/02/2019
» Cases of the sudden disappearance of political dissidents continue to mount. The latest such case occurred in daytime, inside a well-known Bangkok mall. Truong Duy Nhat, a well-known journalist and blogger in Vietnam, was seized and dragged out of Future Park shopping centre. He had just registered his personal details and applied for asylum through the UN refugee office. His disappearance on Jan 26 has received the usual silence from governments involved.
Chinese dissidents in Taiwan airport limbo for over 100 days
AFP, Published on 16/01/2019
» TAIPEI: Chinese dissident Liu Xinglian marked his 64th birthday on Wednesday at Taiwan's Taoyuan airport, one of two refugees who have been trapped in limbo there for more than 100 days, hoping for asylum overseas.
China urges Sweden to heed tourist treatment concern
Published on 17/09/2018
» BEIJING: China on Monday urged Sweden to take seriously its concern over the removal by police of three Chinese citizens from a hotel in Stockholm, after the incident sparked uproar on Chinese social media and an unusually strong response from Beijing.