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This happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...

• trendia 10y ago
  The creepiest part of that incident is that after weeks of no communication, the bookseller "wrote" an email to his daughter saying that he is alright and not to worry about him.
  • emodendroket 10y ago
    They forced him (or maybe it was a different bookseller) to go on TV and claim he turned himself in for some crime he committed as well, as I recall.
• johansch 10y ago
  There was some documentary about the Swedish citizen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai that was shown on Swedish national TV recently. "After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he obtained Swedish residency, and later became a naturalised citizen of Sweden, upon which he renounced his Chinese citizenship." He has a teenage daughter in Sweden today. He was holidaying in Thailand when he was kidnapped by Chinese agents. (Thailand obeys China...) The "offical" Sweden is scared about negative trade consequences (China punished Norway quite thoroughly just because the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Chinese citizen) so they pretend like nothing has happened. Gui Minhai eventually showed up in an obviously staged segment in Chinese state TV where he confessed to some crime he hadn't committed, and then begged Sweden to leave him alone, since he was now back in China "ready to answer to his crimes". This is one of the most shameful aspects of Sweden that I know today, as a Swede. There is no way we would accept this unless there was quite a lot of trade at risk... and even considering this, it feels so wrong to give into them this easily. This is a man who when he escaped to Sweden in the 80s trusted that Sweden would stand up for him.. Little did he know that the social democratic government (this is the same party that the assasinated Olof Palme used to run) would let him down so badly. :/