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Swedish Envoy Recalled After Controversial Meeting

Angela Gui, the daughter of detained writer and publisher Gui Minhai, has written an account of an unusual episode in which she was approached by Anna Lindstedt, the Swedish Ambassador to China, to meet with two businessmen who said they could help her obtain her father’s freedom. At the meeting, attended by Lindstedt, the businessmen made vague threats and promises in exchange for Gui’s agreement that she would no longer speak publicly about her father’s