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Gui Minhai’s daughter says China ‘buried’ his sentence amid coronavirus outbreak

Angela Gui says her bookseller father’s 10-year sentence was pushed through in the hope it would go ‘unnoticed’

The daughter of jailed Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai has said she believes authorities purposefully announced his harsh sentence – 10 years in prison for espionage – during the coronavirus outbreak in hopes that it would go unnoticed.

Angela Gui, who has been advocating for her father, a China-born Swedish citizen, since he was abducted from Thailand in 2015, said she was told last year that a trial would soon take place. In a meeting with Sweden’s former ambassador and two men who said they could arrange her father’s release, Gui was pressured to stop speaking out.

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