We, the undersigned press freedom, journalists’, human rights, international organisations, strongly condemn the Chinese government’s ongoing arbitrary detention of Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai on the 10th anniversary of his kidnapping.
On 17 October 2015, Gui Minhai, a founder of Hong Kong publishing house, was kidnapped by Chinese authorities in Thailand. In February 2020, he was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court on the alleged charge of “illegally providing intelligence to foreign countries,” which is regularly used to silence journalists and human rights defenders.
