China Bookseller Gui Minhai surfaces in Chinese custody to deliver staged confession Activists call the video, in which Gui criticises his home nation of Sweden, ‘the product of pure coercion’ A still from the video in which Gui Minhai delivers what supporters denounced as a ‘venal’ staged confession Photograph: SCMPThree weeks after he was snatched from a Beijing-bound train, the Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai has resurfaced in police custody, making what activists denounced as a surreal, venal and shameful video confession to a series of unspecified offenses. I have made mistakes,” Gui, 53, is filmed telling a small group of reporters who said they had been given access to the prisoner by Chinese security officials. “My wonderful life has been ruined and I would never trust the Swedish ever again,” Gui adds. Several of the images of Gui published by the South China Morning Post show a missing tooth on the right-hand side of his mouth. Chinese authorities said Gui was being held on suspicion of leaking state secrets.

Source: The Guardian February 10, 2018 02:26 UTC