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Gui Minhai is a bookseller from Hong Kong who is currently languishing in prison because he offended the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, Gui succeeded in smuggling out a few poems he wrote in prison that were recently released as a collection by a Swedish publisher. Poems in captivity In total, the collection has 11 ...
Last month, the Swedish chapter of PEN (a worldwide association of writers) gave its Tucholsky Prize to Gui Minhai, a persecuted Chinese-born book publisher. In retaliation, China seems to be preparing to impose sanctions on Sweden. Minhai is currently being detained by Beijing for criticizing the communist state. The sanctions China had warned Sweden not ...
Sweden’s culture minister recently awarded the Tucholsky Prize to Chinese author and activist Gui Minhai despite threats from Beijing that such an act would trigger “serious consequences.” Gui is currently under detention in China. He has written dozens of books that criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its ideology, policies, and the people associated with ...