cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/43773109
At the time of his arrest in 2015, Gui Minhai held only Swedish citizenship. Chinese officials have frequently stated that foreign passports do not protect individuals who were born in the People’s Republic of China, an interpretation that violates the Vienna Convention.
In February 2020, a Chinese court sentenced Gui Minhai to 10 years in prison on charges of ‘illegally providing intelligence abroad’, after a secret and unfair trial where he has been denied proper legal representation and access to Swedish consular services.
His current whereabouts are still unknown.
On 9 October, an overwhelming majority of 546 out of 593 Members of the European Parliament voted of a resolution calling on the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission and EU member states to urge China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai.
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In February 2020, a Chinese court sentenced Gui Minhai to 10 years in prison on charges of ‘illegally providing intelligence abroad’, after a secret and unfair trial
That period was synonymous with a national anti-spy dragnet effectively dismantling CIA operations in China installed during the Bush/Obama era.
Incidentally, the US was arresting and prosecuting Chinese spies during the same period, provoking similar complaints from Chinese consulates. The peak of this being the forced shuttering of the Houston, TX based Chinese consulate on charges of espionage that came at the height of Trump admin officials claiming COVID was a bio-weapon created in a Chinese lab to target Americans.
Convenient that the publisher of books critical to the regime was found to be a spy lol
Americans will believe this about a Swede distributing anti-Communist agitprop, then lose their fucking minds if they see a Confucius Center or a Mosque open up in their neighborhood.
And what does America’s actions have to do with the EU?
It’s one big international security state apparatus.
Go back to .ml
Don’t hurt the NPCs.
They need to believe their owners are the good guys.
