China jails Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai for 10 years
- Five years after he ‘disappeared’ in Thailand, the Hong Kong-based Swedish citizen is found guilty of ‘illegally providing intelligence for overseas entities’
- Chinese court said Gui Minhai would not be appealing his sentence
A Chinese court has convicted Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai for “illegally providing intelligence for overseas entities”, almost five years after he was first detained.
Gui was sentenced to 10 years in prison and deprivation of political rights for five years by a Chinese court on Monday. A statement by the Intermediate People’s Court of Ningbo said Gui would not appeal at the end of the trial.
Sweden’s foreign minister on Tuesday demanded that Chinese authorities release Gui. “We have always been clear that we demand that Gui Minhai be released so that he is able to reunite with his daughter, his family, and that demand remains,” Foreign Minister Ann Linde said in an interview on Swedish Radio.
“We, of course, demand immediate access to our Swedish citizen in order to give him all consular support that he is entitled to,” she said.
