November 16, 2019 4:35 PM
The Chinese ambassador to Sweden had threatened Minister of Culture Amanda Lind with a ban on entering China if she attended the prize-giving on Friday. “Giving an award to such a criminal is an outright political farce … It also constitutes a gross interference in China’s judicial sovereignty,” the statement said.
Svenska PEN, a literary organization awarded Gui the 2019 Tucholsky Prize, praising his work in the service of free speech. An empty chair symbolically represented the writer at the ceremony in Stockholm.
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