Swedish public television and newspaper Göteborgs-Posten today broke the news that Sweden is to deport a Chinese journalist who was detained by the Swedish Security Service in October last year.…
This text is written by Gunnar Hökmark, president of Stockholm Free World Forum (SFWF) and former Swedish Member of Parliament and Member of European Parliament, and Patrik Oksanen, senior fellow…
”People who live in glass houses should not throw stones” is a widely used idiom in Sweden. And seldom has this piece of advice been more applicable than when the…
Last night Gui Congyou, the Chinese ambassador to Sweden, had a somewhat awkward interview with the public Swedish broadcaster SVT. Anders Holmberg, the host of 30 minuter (30 minutes), one…
Ten years ago, activist Baolige Wurina escaped to Sweden from Inner Mongolia, where the authorities had been persecuting him for his activism on rights issues for ethnic Mongols in the…
A solidarity rally for the ongoing protest movement in Hong Kong and its five demands will be held at the public square of Mynttorget in central Stockholm this coming Monday,…
Back in September, I wrote about a Uyghur family of four who had been denied asylum to Sweden and were about to be deported to Xinjiang. The lack of knowledge…
Just a few years ago, obtaining a journalist visa (J-visa) to China was a mere formality, according to Peter Kadhammar, a veteran reporter at Aftonbladet, one of the two biggest…
Yesterday it was reported in Swedish media that our King with short notice cancelled his upcoming China trip, that was supposed to take place between November 25 and December 1.…
Last weekend I wrote (in Swedish) about the satire show ”Swedish News”, that created a minor diplomatic row between Sweden and China by broadcasting a segment about Chinese tourists that…
September 5, I wrote the article ”Sweden about to deport a Uyghur family to Xinjiang”, and a week later also an update on this case. The story concerns a Uyghur…
In the last couple of days, a Chinese family getting evicted from a Stockholm hotel by Swedish police have made headlines around the world a created a diplomatic row between…
In the past few days, a case where Swedish police removed a Chinese family of three from a Stockholm hotel has made headlines around the world and created a diplomatic…
Last week, I wrote a text with the headline ”Sweden about to deport a Uyghur family to Xinjiang”, about Abdakir, his pregnant wife and their two children. After having been…
On the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, a rally for kidnapped Swedish publisher Gui Minhai will be held outside of the Chinese embassy in Stockholm. Gui has now been…