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The Gothenburg Book Fair organised an event on the 27th of September to mark the 60th birthdays of both Gui Minhai and Dawit Isaak this year. Minhai's case is discussed at two seminars at the fair: "Who Will Get Gui Minhai and Dawit Isaak Home?", at the Freedom of Expression Stage on the 26th; and "Swedish Prisoners of Conscience in the World", in Amnesty Sweden's booth on the 29th.

At the 39th EU-China Human Rights Dialogue in Chongqing, the EU called for the immediate release of Gui Minhai along with others unlawfully detained in China, including Ilham Tohti, Go Sherab Gyatso, Xu Na, Wang Yi, Yu Wensheng, Zhang Zhan, and Li Qiaochu. Read the EEAS statement here.

The Campaign for Hong Kong, Swedish PEN, RSF Sweden, and Befria Hongkong jointly organised a screening of the documentary "The Hong Konger" at Klarabiografen in Stockholm. The screening was accompanied by a panel discussion led by Gui Minhai's daughter Angela Gui on the erosion of press freedom in Hong Kong and the cases of Jimmy Lai and Gui Minhai. Panellists were Samuel Chu, democracy activist and founder of The Campaign for Hong Kong; Siri Hill, journalist and Vice Chair of RSF's International Council; Fredrik Fällman, Sinologist and Board member of Swedish PEN; and Tao Chan, Chair of Befria Hongkong.

The Swedish Writer's Union, the Swedish Union of Journalists, the Swedish Publishers' Association, the Swedish Publicists' Association, Swedish PEN, and RSF Sweden jointly hosted an event in Stockholm to mark Gui Minhai's 60th birthday. Speakers at the event were journalist and activist Kurdo Baksi, publisher Martin Kaunitz, Expressen's Deputy Editor in chief Karin Olsson, Svenska Dagbladet's Culture Editor Anders Q. Björkman, Dagens Nyheter's Culture Editor Björn Wiman, Aftonbladet's Culture Editor Eric Rosén, and Gui Minhai's daughter Angela Gui. Read article about the event in Journalisten here.

On the 5th of May 2024, Gui Minhai turned 60 in prison without permission to contact his family. In an op-ed for Aftonbladet, Kurdo Baksi and Grethe Rottböll called for Sweden to intensify its efforts to secure his release; read that article here.

On the 9th of April 2024, CCP English-language newspaper the Global Times published an op-ed by Chen Qingqing on the deportation of a Chinese journalist from Sweden. Contrary to China’s official line on Gui Minhai’s citizenship, the article acknowledged that Gui Minhai holds Swedish citizenship. Gui’s daughter Angela Gui said in an interview with Kvartal that while the meaning of this acknowledgement was unclear, it posed a good opportunity for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to repeat its demands for consular access.

The Swedish Government’s annual Foreign Policy Declaration, presented by Foreign Minister Tobias Billström on the 14th of February 2024, included a commitment to continue work to secure the release of Gui Minhai, Dawit Isaak, and Johan Floderus, as well as a call for their release. Read the 2024 Foreign Policy Declaration here.

After winning two gold medals in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Swedish speedskater Nils van der Poel gave one of them to Gui Minhai to protest Beijing’s human rights violations and to raise awareness of Gui’s continued imprisonment. Van der Poel and Gui’s daughter Angela Gui, who accepted the medal on her father’s behalf, were interviewed on the significance of van der Poel’s gesture in the New York Times.

Swedish news agency TT reported that a visit to China and Hong Kong by King Carl XVI Gustaf in November and December 2018 would not go ahead as planned due to the continued detention of Gui Minhai. Read the article here.