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EU Parliament Urges China to Free Gui Minhai on 10th Anniversary of His Disappearance

Rights groups call the case a stark example of transnational repression targeting publishers.

Overview

  • The European Parliament passed a joint motion urging Beijing to immediately and unconditionally release Gui Minhai and to end arbitrary detention and coerced televised confessions.
  • Amnesty International marked the decade since his disappearance by renewing demands for disclosure of his whereabouts, consular access, and his immediate release.
  • Gui vanished from his Pattaya apartment in October 2015 and later appeared on Chinese state television delivering an apparently forced confession.
  • In February 2020, a Chinese court sentenced him to 10 years for allegedly providing intelligence to foreign entities, a process criticized by rights groups as a sham.
  • He remains held at an undisclosed location without regular contact with family or Swedish diplomats, while his daughter pleads for action and reports intimidation.