Chinese Sentences Hong Kong Bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 Years in Jail

Chinese Sentences Hong Kong Bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 Years in Jail
Members of the pro-democracy Civic Party carry a portrait of Gui Minhai (L) and Lee Bo during a protest outside the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong on Jan. 19, 2016. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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Chinese-born Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for illegally providing intelligence overseas, the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court in China said in a Feb. 25 statement on its website.

Gui, who sold books critical of China’s political leadership while previously based in Hong Kong, was detained by mainland police in 2018. He was seized by plainclothes police while with Swedish diplomats.