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The Swedish Writer's Union, the Swedish Union of Journalists, the Swedish Publishers' Association, the Swedish Publicists' Association, Swedish PEN, and RSF Sweden jointly hosted an event in Stockholm to mark Gui Minhai's 60th birthday. Speakers at the event were journalist and activist Kurdo Baksi, publisher Martin Kaunitz, Expressen's Deputy Editor in chief Karin Olsson, Svenska Dagbladet's Culture Editor Anders Q. Björkman, Dagens Nyheter's Culture Editor Björn Wiman, Aftonbladet's Culture Editor Eric Rosén, and Gui Minhai's daughter Angela Gui. Read article about the event in Journalisten here.

On the 5th of May 2024, Gui Minhai turned 60 in prison without permission to contact his family. In an op-ed for Aftonbladet, Kurdo Baksi and Grethe Rottböll called for Sweden to intensify its efforts to secure his release; read that article here.

On the 9th of April 2024, CCP English-language newspaper the Global Times published an op-ed by Chen Qingqing on the deportation of a Chinese journalist from Sweden. Contrary to China’s official line on Gui Minhai’s citizenship, the article acknowledged that Gui Minhai holds Swedish citizenship. Gui’s daughter Angela Gui said in an interview with Kvartal that while the meaning of this acknowledgement was unclear, it posed a good opportunity for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to repeat its demands for consular access.

The Swedish Government’s annual Foreign Policy Declaration, presented by Foreign Minister Tobias Billström on the 14th of February 2024, included a commitment to continue work to secure the release of Gui Minhai, Dawit Isaak, and Johan Floderus, as well as a call for their release. Read the 2024 Foreign Policy Declaration here.

After winning two gold medals in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Swedish speedskater Nils van der Poel gave one of them to Gui Minhai to protest Beijing’s human rights violations and to raise awareness of Gui’s continued imprisonment. Van der Poel and Gui’s daughter Angela Gui, who accepted the medal on her father’s behalf, were interviewed on the significance of van der Poel’s gesture in the New York Times.

Swedish news agency TT reported that a visit to China and Hong Kong by King Carl XVI Gustaf in November and December 2018 would not go ahead as planned due to the continued detention of Gui Minhai. Read the article here.