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SCMP Confronted Over Forced Confession Coverage

In February, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post published an interview with detained publisher Gui Minhai in which he criticized Sweden, his other country of citizenship, for sensationalizing and politicizing his case and using him "like a chess piece." As with its 2016 interview with detained legal assistant Zhao Wei, the Post’s coverage of a prisoner’s politically convenient statements made under likely coercion stirred up worries