Sweden says China must release bookseller Gui Minhai from jail

Sweden’s foreign minister called on China to release Swedish citizen Gui Minhai from jail on Friday, following a visit to Beijing, continuing a long diplomatic stand-off between the two countries over the Chinese-born bookseller.
Gui, a Hong Kong-based publisher of books critical of China’s communist leaders, was handed a 10-year prison term by Beijing in 2020 for illegally providing intelligence overseas.
Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, in a post on X, said she had raised the case with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during her visit.
“Our stance remains firm: Gui Minhai must be released and reunited with his family,” Malmer Stenergard wrote.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, responding to the Swedish foreign minister’s remarks, said China handled Gui’s case in accordance with the law.