Gui Minhai's friend about the verdict: "It's ridiculous"

- How can a collection of poems be reason enough to sentence someone to ten years in prison? It is ridiculous, he tells SVT News.

China's ambassador Gui Congyou does not want to discuss the case with Gui Minhai, this is when the embassy claims that the publisher applied for Chinese citizenship 2018 on his own initiative, which should have resulted in his losing his citizenship.

- Part of it I don't believe in. Based on how I know him, he has definitely not given up his Swedish citizenship, says Bei Ling.

The Foreign Ministry is also skeptical about the information about Gui Minhai's citizenship.

- He is a Swedish citizen. A Swedish citizenship can only be terminated after examination and decision by the Migration Board, says Buster Mirow Emitslöf, press contact at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

- Chinese law decides who is a Chinese citizen and Swedish law decides who is a Swedish citizen. He is and will remain a Swedish citizen until the Migration Board may, after an examination, have made a decision, says UD's Cabinet Secretary Robert Rydberg in SVT's Aktuellt.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called China's ambassador on the occasion of the prison sentence.

- We have today called China's ambassador to Stockholm to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and repeated what we have said for a long time; that Gui Minhai must be released, says Ann Linde, at a press conference in Berlin.