STOCKHOLM, June 5 — Sweden's former ambassador to Beijing goes on trial in Stockholm today accused of overstepping her mandate by trying to negotiate the release of a Chinese-Swedish dissident held in China. Anna Lindstedt is accused of brokering an unauthorised meeting during her time as...
Sweden's former ambassador to Beijing Anna Lindstedt — Image courtesy of twitter.com/swemfa
Lindstedt — a veteran envoy who had previously represented Sweden in both Vietnam and Mexico, and acted as Sweden's chief negotiator at the 2015 climate summit in Paris — has denied the charges against her. In February of this year, a court in the Chinese city of Ningbo sentenced the publisher to 10 years in prison on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad.At the heart of the case against Lindstedt is a January 2019 meeting she helped organise between Gui Minhai's daughter, Angela Gui, and businessmen with ties to Beijing.
In exchange, Angela Gui said she was told she “needed to be quiet” and to “stop all media engagement,” and she has later described the tone of the meeting as “threatening.”The foreign ministry subsequently relieved Lindstedt, who was appointed as ambassador to China in 2016, of her duties but she has stayed on at the foreign ministry without an assignment.
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