Detained Causeway Bay bookseller Gui Minhai not seen by Swedish diplomats for more than three months, says consul general
Gui, one of the Causeway Bay booksellers, has been held on the mainland for eight months without formal charge
China has denied Sweden access to Gui Minhai, a Swedish national and bookseller detained on the mainland for more than three months, the country’s top diplomat in Hong Kong has told the Post.
The unresolved case cast a shadow over the Swedish consulate’s 60th anniversary in the city yesterday.
Gui was one of five booksellers operating in the city whose disappearances sparked widespread speculation that they had been abducted by mainland agents acting illegally.
“We are of course very worried to see a Swedish citizen … displayed on national TV to confess a crime,” Helena Storm, Sweden’s consul-general to Hong Kong and Macau, said. “The case has been widely reported in Sweden.”