Current classification: CURRENTLY IMPRISONED – MAINLAND CHINA / CROSS-BORDER CASE
Last verified: September 14, 2026.
Verified profile
Gui Minhai is a Swedish citizen, publisher and bookseller associated with Mighty Current Media and Causeway Bay Books. He was forcibly disappeared from Thailand in 2015 and later detained in mainland China. PEN International records him in 2026 as serving a 10-year prison sentence imposed on February 24, 2020 and notes the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finding that his detention is arbitrary. He is counted as a current political prisoner, but not as a prisoner physically held in Hong Kong.
Evidence and provenance
Archive rule
This is the canonical person/status record for Free China. Historical detention does not imply current imprisonment. Current custody is counted only when supported by dated evidence; unresolved contemporary status is explicitly marked under verification.