Sweden urges China to release detained bookseller Gui Minhai

Beijing. January 24. Silkroadnews - Sweden calls on China to release detained bookseller Gui Minhai, The Guardian International edition reports.
“Sweden’s foreign minister says her country takes “a very serious view” of Gui’s detention as he travelled to Beijing for a medical examination,” the report said.
“We expect the immediate release of our fellow citizen, and that he be given the opportunity to meet Swedish diplomatic and medical staff,” the agency quoted Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström saying. She also rejected the words by representatives of the Chinese Foreign Ministry about two Swedish diplomats allegedly violating the law when accompanying Gui.  
On Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying denied the information spread on Gui’s case in the media, but hinted that Sweden’s diplomats had violated the law.
“Gui, a 53-year-old Chinese-born Swede who worked on sensational tomes about the private lives of China’s political elite, was detained on Saturday morning as he took a train to Beijing from the eastern city of Ningbo accompanied by the diplomats. According to the bookseller’s daughter, Angela, he was heading to the capital for a medical examination at the Swedish embassy as a result of concerns he may be suffering from a rare neurological disease,” the publication reads.
In October 2015, he disappeared from his Thai holiday home, and then reappeared in China, where he made what the supporters, blaming Beijing for his abduction, called a forced television confession. Gui was close to release last autumn amid reports that he was “half-free” and lives under surveillance, some of the time in Ningbo.