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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom007:
    Just got this via SCMP news alert

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    I have to shoulder my own liability, and I’m willing to be punished, said a tearful Gui Minhai, during an interview with CCTV, aired on Sunday night. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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    Missing Hong Kong bookseller appears on state television, claiming he turned himself in over 11-year-old drink-driving death

    One of the five booksellers who had mysteriously disappeared in recent months appeared in an interview on state media on Sunday night, saying he had surrendered to the mainland authorities after being on the run for more than 11 years.
    UPDATED : 17 Jan 2016 - 9:49pm
    Unbelievable...is there a link to the video? Of course, this confession is for Mainlanders but it shows the utter contempt they have for HKers...damn.
    https://twitter.com/cctvnews/status/...375553?lang=en
    Last edited by Lord Dashwood; 17-01-2016 at 10:25 PM.
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    Got more text :

    DANNY MOK

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    PUBLISHED : Sunday, 17 January, 2016, 9:43pm
    UPDATED : Sunday, 17 January, 2016, 10:29pm




    Gui Minhai, a China-born Swedish national and co-owner of Mighty Current publishing company – which specialises in books banned on the mainland – appeared on CCTV, admitting he had been evading a suspended 2 year jail term since causing the death of a 20-year-old university student while drink-driving in Ningbo, Zhejiang province in 2004.

    “I was afraid of going to jail, and there was no way I could develop on the mainland, so I thought I better run,” Gui said.

    He surrendered to mainland Chinese police in October last year.

    “I have to shoulder my own liability, and I’m willing to be punished,” Gui said, while sobbing.


    READ MORE: Sweden’s foreign ministry takes ‘serious view’ over disappearance of publisher and naturalised citizen while in Thailand

    During the recorded interview, which the state broadcaster claimed was filmed in a detention centre, Gui also asked that the Swedish authorities stay away.

    “Even though I am a Swedish national, I truly feel that I am still Chinese and my roots are still in China. So I hope that the Swedish side would respect my personal choice, rights and privacy and let me solve my own problems,” he said.

    Xinhua also carried the report at about the same time last night.

    Almost two weeks ago the Swedish ministry for foreign affairs announced it was taking a ‘serious view’ over Gui Minhai’s disappearance, summoning the Thai ambassador and launching an investigation both in Thialand and mainland China.

    “Our embassies in Bangkok and Beijing are investigating this through local authorities. Swedish law enforcement authorities are working on the case. Our embassy in Bangkok has raised the issue with high-level Thai representatives,” ministry spokesman Gabriel Wernstedt said.

    Mighty Current publishing company has published about 80 books on China since its establishment in 2012. The company also runs a book shop in Causeway Bay, known as Causeway Bay Books.

    The bookstore was established in 1994 and was said to be popular among mainland tourists as they could buy politics books banned in their homeland.

    READ MORE: Missing, presumed detained: Hong Kong publishers of books critical of China go missing

    Missing since November

    Gui Minhai first came to the attention of media when he appeared in Thailand, after leaving town suddenly in November, last year. His disappearance was preceded by the disappearance of three other members of the Mighty Current/Causeway Bay Books staff the month before after they had visited relatives in Shenzen in mainland China.

    Missing person reports were made to police about three other members of the bookstore’s staff – manager Lam Wing-kei, Lui Bo, general manager of the publishing house and Cheung Jiping, the publishing house’s business manager, on November 5.

    At the time a colleague and co-owner of Might Current Publishing, Mr Lee, said Gui’s whereabouts were unknown since he went on holiday in Pattaya in Thailand in the middle of November.

    Gui was last heard of when he sent an email on October 15 to printers asking them to get ready for a new book. Since then, Gui could not be reached, Lee said.

    Lee said he feared the four might have been detained by mainland authorities as the book Gui was sending to print probably touched on sensitive issues.

    “I suspect all of them were detained. All four went missing at the same time,” Lee said. He added that phone calls to them were either unanswered or went dead.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Dashwood:
    Unbelievable...is there a link to the video? Of course, this confession is for Mainlanders but it shows the utter contempt they have for HKers...damn.
    https://twitter.com/cctvnews/status/...375553?lang=en
    No video link / not yet

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    The car accident...Google Translate it...his name is there...

    CCTV-

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom007:
    No video link / not yet
    They just played it on TVB...my wife (Chinese) watched and all she could ask was, "What about the other four?"...

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    Interesting. Some peeps on Twitter note that the article puts the driver, Gui Min Hai at 46 years old in 2003...'our' Gui Min Hai was born in 1964...

    Enough...Let's see how this unfolds tomorrow...

    Last edited by Lord Dashwood; 17-01-2016 at 10:56 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Dashwood:
    Interesting. Some peeps on Twitter note that the article puts the driver, Gui Min Hai at 46 years old in 2003...'our' Gui Min Hai was born in 1964...
    It doesn't matter at all as it doesn't explain the other book publisher workers at all. Let alone that someone would go missing from Thailand to then smuggle himself all the way to China anyway!

    This will only add more oil to the fire...let's see which line CY will follow further from up North.
    Last edited by Gatts; 17-01-2016 at 11:31 PM.
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    Why would you leave from Thailand and head to China to surrender? Wouldn't you do a shorter route from Hong Kong? Where's the common sense?

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    At first I felt abhorrence for this man. Killing someone in a hit-and-run accident is one of the lowest of crimes. But thinking about it more calmly: He went back voluntarily (willingly giving up his family, his flat in Pattaya, all his possessions, and his business). He is clearly repentant. Despite emigrating, he acknowledges that he is Chinese at the core. All these things are to his credit.



    This post contains irony.

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    Earlier post from Dec 1, 2015 -

    How two of the people on the same flight (Thailand to China) as the HK book publisher (Gui Minhai) came to be deported - 

    https://geoexpat.com/forum/409/threa...ml#post3342289

    Note:
    According to the BBC & Reporters Without Borders, Gui Minhai was on the same flight.

    Al Jazeera -

    Three other Chinese nationals were also forcibly returned to China along with Dong and Jiang. Their identities have not yet been confirmed.
    Last edited by threesummers; 18-01-2016 at 02:50 AM.

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