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ramen

(783 posts)
Fri Nov 15, 2019, 11:02 AM Nov 2019

Swedish PM hits back at China over literature prize threat

Source: The Local SE

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has promised to stand firm in the face of threats from China over a prize for the imprisoned dissident writer Gui Minhai. "The Culture Minister will hand out the prize. She has been asked to do so and said 'yes', so of course we are going to follow through on that," he said in an interview with public broadcaster SVT.

"We have no intention of yielding to these sorts of threats. Ever. We have freedom of expression in Sweden and that is what applies here. Full stop."

China on Thursday threatened to impose "counter-measures" on Sweden if the Culture Minister Amanda Lind goes ahead on Friday evening and hands out the Tucholsky Prize to the dissident Chinese writer Gui Minhai, who is currently imprisoned in China.

"We firmly oppose representatives of the Swedish government attending such an event, and if they decide to stick to what they are doing, we will have no choice but to take counter-measures," Chinese Ambassador Gui Congyou warned in an interview with Swedish Radio.

Read more: https://www.thelocal.se/20191115/china-threatens-sweden-over-prize-to-dissident-author



That is the way to deal with this international authoritarian garbage.
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Swedish PM hits back at China over literature prize threat (Original Post) ramen Nov 2019 OP
Just goes to show not fooled Nov 2019 #1
Gotta like Sweden. Wish they had assurance of US backing. mpcamb Nov 2019 #2

not fooled

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1. Just goes to show
Fri Nov 15, 2019, 02:07 PM
Nov 2019

what a country can do when it's not run by a cabal of soulless billionaires who put profits above humanity.

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