(EFE) .- Minhai Gui, one of the five Hong Kong booksellers disappeared since last year, appeared today on Chinese state television CCTV on the grounds that it gave the authorities to account by the abuse and death of a young man in 2004 and so presumably fled the country.
Gui, editor and owner of the bookstore Causeway Bay Books and publishing Mighty Current, specializing in publishing and selling books critical of the regime and the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, appears in a video recorded and broadcast by CCTV on Sunday night after missing more than two months.
In the video, Gui said that was delivered to the Chinese authorities late last October for trial after more than 11 years to evade justice, today released the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post.
In the recording, issued delayed, Gui, who has Chinese and Swedish dual citizenship, was convicted for the death of a 20 year old who was hit while driving intoxicated in Ningbo City in Zhejiang Province of China in 2004.
“I was afraid of going to jail and there was no way I could stay in the country, so I decided to flee he said in the broadcast by the television channel was recorded in a detention center in China, without specifying the place.
Gui acknowledged his guilt and “desire to be punished” and asked the Swedish authorities did not interfere in the matter.
“Although I’m Swedish, I feel really Chinese, my roots are in China and hope that Sweden respect my personal decision, my rights and privacy, and let me solve my own problems, “he told the official network cameras, controlled by the Chinese regime.
The disappearance of Gui Minhai became public on November 5 through the bookstore manager Causeway Bay, Lee Bo, also disappeared on January 1
Minhai Gui’s disappearance became public on November 5 through the bookstore manager Causeway Bay, Lee Bo, also disappeared on January 1, who reported that the Swedish publisher could not be located after he received an email his Oct. 15 authorizing the publication of a new book.
After that date it became known that Gui had gone on holiday to the Thai city of Pattaya, from where he lost track today.
His disappearance had been preceded by three of his colleagues from the library and also owners and editors Current Mighty, who did not signs of life after visiting the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
They Lee Bo, from the same publisher and bookstore, joined whose disappearance was reported by his wife in January.
Beijing has refused to comment on the matter on several fronts while the Chinese government of being behind the case are accused.
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