Posted on 03/02/2020 9:50:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Chinese court has sentenced Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 years in jail for "illegally providing intelligence overseas".
Mr Gui, who holds Swedish citizenship, has been in and out of Chinese detention since 2015, when he went missing during a holiday in Thailand.
He is known to have previously published books on the personal lives of Chinese Communist Party members.
Rights groups condemned the "harsh sentence" and called for his release.
He was one of five owners of a small bookstore in Hong Kong who went missing in 2015. It later emerged that they had been taken to China. Four were later freed, but Mr Gui remained in Chinese detention.
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Is Sweden a sovereign country ? Should it rescue that citizen and get him out of there ? If he was an American, ratting out an enemy country’s crooks that should also happen.
This case is one of many examples of the ChiComs breaching the basic agreement.
The protests in Hong directly relate to these sort of things.
Can’t have it getting out how the ruling commie elite live
Snatched away from Thailand by Chinese agents.They really had it in for this guy. This fellow was a Swedish citizen and what pull does Sweden have? .Imagine the Chinese trying that to an America citizen on American soil.
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