Penname Ah Hai
Sex Male
Birth date 1964-05-05
Birth place Ning City, Zhejiang Province
Resident place Düsseldorf, Germany (Swedish citizen)
Education B.A. in History at Peking University (1985), M.A. in Humanities (1990) and Ph.D in History (1996) at University of Gothenburg
Profession Writer, publisher and bookseller; head of Mighty Current Media and Causeway Bay Bookstore, Hong Kong. (ICPC member)
Date of arrest 2015-10-17 (disappeared in Tailand), 2015-10-xx(imprisoned for a early sentence in China), 2016-02-xx (charged for an new offence); 2018-01-19 (arrest, 2nd)
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province
Cause of arrest Writing, editing, publishing and selling the political gossip books on China’s leaders, and so charged by the police for illegally selling some 4,000 coopies of them in China mainland via an online platform and evading customs inspections to 380 customers in 28 provinces since October 2014 (1 st); unknown (2nd)
Charge Suspicion of illegal business (1st); illegally providing intelligence overseas (2nd)
Date of sentence 2020-02-24
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Cour of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province
Sentence 10 years imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of political rights
Defender
Place of jail Cixi Detention Center, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province
Situation in jail Unknown
Date of release 2017-10-xx (1st); 2028-02-19 (?)
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Status Main case
All of his four Hong Kong based co-suspects were released on bail pending trial and returned to Hong Kong in March-June, 2016.
Reference
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51624433
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3043025/detained-hong-kong-bookseller-gui-minhai-alive-and-well
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/returned-hong-kong-bookseller-says-confession-scripted-lee-bo-abducted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/08/gui-minhai-the-strange-disappearance-of-a-publisher-who-riled-chinas-elite
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1898013/swedens-foreign-ministry-takes-serious-view-over
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35338484
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxY73pY6QE
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/thai-authorities-investigate-how-missing-hong-kong-bookseller-gui-minhai-got-china-1538898
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1906663/swedish-police-thailand-look-gui-minhai-disappearance
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/world/asia/hong-kong-bookseller-gui-minhai.html?_r=0