China has freed Swedish dissident book publisher Gui Minhai, says Sweden

He went missing in 2015 while on holiday in Thailand.

October 24, 2017 03:23 pm | Updated 03:53 pm IST - Stockholm

This undated handout photo provided to AFP, courtesy of Angela Gui, on September 22, 2017 shows Angela Gui as a child with and her father Gui Minhai, who disappeared on October 17, 2015.

This undated handout photo provided to AFP, courtesy of Angela Gui, on September 22, 2017 shows Angela Gui as a child with and her father Gui Minhai, who disappeared on October 17, 2015.

Sweden on October 24 said China has released Swedish dissident book publisher Gui Minhai, who wrote political gossip books about Chinese leaders, two years after he went missing while on holiday in Thailand.

“We have received information from the Chinese authorities that he has been released,” Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Sofia Karlberg told AFP, without specifying when Mr. Minhai was freed.

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