As recently as June, a report came from the Foreign Policy Institute which stated that China is conducting an "aggressive pressure campaign" against Swedish journalists, researchers and activists. Since the beginning of 2018, pressure has increased from China.

"It is a campaign whose intensity Sweden has never experienced before, it is actually unique even in a European context," Björn Jerdén, director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Institute, told SVT News in June.

During July and August, the Chinese Embassy continued to make a number of posts on its website, which is strongly critical of Swedish media reporting. This applies mainly to the demonstrations in Hong Kong and interviews with the refugee Sayragul Sauytbay.

Strikes against SVT interview

At the end of last week, the embassy targeted an interview conducted by SVT with Sayragul Suaytbay, who was a teacher in a secret camp for Muslim minority groups in China. She told me she could see traces of torture on the students' bodies.

"We urge SVT to follow the journalistic ethical guidelines and report objectively and fairly and not act as a platform for anti-Chinese, false political propaganda," the embassy's statement read.

"Of course publishing"

- We have noted that the embassy spends a lot of time on taking part in what Swedish media reports on China. There have been some incidents and attacks. However, this will not affect our reporting, says SVT Nyheter's responsible publisher Charlotta Friborg.

How do you defend SVT's publication about Sayragul Sauytbay being criticized by the Chinese Embassy?

- It's an obvious publication. A person who tells in detail what she has been through. It's our way of putting a piece of the puzzle into the big puzzle of what's going on in Xinjiang.

The Reporters Without Borders organization has previously criticized the Chinese embassy in Sweden's behavior.