Swedish speed skater Nils van der Poel has given one of the two gold medals he won in Beijing to Chinese-Swedish dissident Gui Minhai to protest against China's human rights violations, Amnesty International said in a press statement on Friday.
A group of Swedish publishers have written an open letter to China's new ambassador to Sweden, calling for the release of Chinese-Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai, who is serving ten years in prison on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad.
Sweden should on Friday hear the verdict in the trial of the country's ex-ambassador to China, who is accused of overstepping the rules in the high-profile case of Gui Minhai, a Chinese-Swedish publisher and dissident.
Sweden has demanded the release of jailed Swedish citizen Gui Minhai on Tuesday after learning that he had been sentenced to ten years in prison in China.
More than four years after his disappearance, Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that has caused frosty relations between Beijing and Stockholm.
Sweden has summoned China's ambassador after he threatening the Swedish media for its coverage of the dissident Bookseller Gui Minhai and other sensitive topics.
China has called off two business visits to Sweden, said the Chinese ambassador to Stockholm, the latest move as tensions grow between the two countries.
Sweden's former ambassador to China faces an unprecedented trial over allegations she overstepped her authority during a meeting to secure the release of imprisoned bookseller Gui Minhai.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has promised to stand firm in the face of threats from China over a prize for the imprisoned dissident writer Gui Minhai.
The prosecutor investigating Sweden's former ambassador to China says the envoy may have committed a crime when she organized a meeting to secure the release of Chinese-Swedish publisher Gui Minhai.
Sweden's former ambassador to China has been appointed a criminal lawyer in the ongoing investigation of her 'secret' meeting with the daughter of imprisoned bookseller Gui Minhai.
Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish national who disappeared in China in murky circumstances for the second time in January, has been allowed to see a Swedish doctor, Sweden said on Monday.
Sweden has hit out at China for refusing to allow a Swedish doctor to visit detained book publisher Gui Minhai, but China calls the accusations "groundless".
Detained book publisher Gui Minhai has surfaced nearly three weeks after disappearing into police custody in China, confessing wrongdoing and accusing his adopted country Sweden of manipulating him like a "chess piece".
The daughter of missing Swedish publisher Gui Minhai who was snatched in China last month says she fears she may never see him again and has urged the international community to take action.
The US State Department on Saturday called on China to explain why Swedish citizen Gui Minhai was detained by Chinese authorities in front of two Swedish diplomats.
The European Union's ambassador to China urged Beijing on Wednesday to "immediately" release a book publisher after the Swedish citizen was snatched for a second time while accompanied by Swedish
diplomats, with Sweden's Foreign Minister also calling for his release.
Rights campaigners slammed as "appalling" reports on Tuesday that dissident publisher Gui Minhai has been snatched again in mainland China, the latest person ensnared in Beijing's crackdown on civil society.
Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, who was released from detention by China last autumn after two years in custody, has again been seized in a dramatic arrest on a train, his daughter claimed.
