Chinese court jails bookseller over unauthorised intelligence gathering

A Chinese court has sentenced Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 years in jail for illegally providing intelligence overseas.

Mr Gui, who holds Swedish citizenship, has been in and out of Chinese detention since 2015, when he went missing during a holiday in Thailand.

He is known to have previously published books on the personal lives of Chinese communist party members.

He was one of five owners of a small bookstore in Hong Kong who went missing in 2015.

It later emerged that they had been taken to China.

Four were later freed, but Mr Gui remained in Chinese detention.

Meanwhile, rights groups has condemned the harsh sentence and called for his release.