Sweden summons Chinese ambassador over ‘kidnapping’ of Gui Minhai
Sweden’s foreign minister says the situation has worsened since the bookseller was taken by police while travelling on a train to Beijing
Sweden has summoned China’s ambassador to Stockholm to explain the dramatic snatching of a Swedish bookseller as he travelled to Beijing with two European diplomats.Gui Minhai, 53, was taken on Saturday by about 10 plainclothes officers as his train stopped at a station outside the Chinese capital. His current whereabouts is unknown.
It is the second time in just over two years that Gui, a Hong Kong publisher who had specialised in melodramatic tomes about China’s political elite, has been seized by Chinese agents. In October 2015 Gui vanished from his Thai holiday home, later resurfacing in detention in China where he made what supporters denounc...