University of Nottingham censorship — is it linked to fears over the Ningbo campus, and Gui Minhai’s case? On the occasion of Norway’s PM Jonas Gahr Støre traveling to China recently to make new business deals, I wanted to re-up my piece on Norway’s indifference to China’s ongoing genocide and how they censored their own king, when he spoke out about it on his visit:
“Of Kings and Concentration Camps: Xinjiang and Norway,” in Asia Dialogue, the online magazine of the University of Nottingham’s Asia Research Institute, which is listed online as “a world leading centre for expertise on the Asia-Pacific region.”
I then discovered that the Nottingham magazine has deleted my article — without notice! Luckily it can still be read at a Taiwan site under a different title: “Norway, China and the Deep Hypocrisy of the ‘Human Rights Dialogue’ Ritual.”
Then I discovered that another Nottingham article of mine was also deleted without notice, namely this: “The Xinjiang camps as a ‘Stanford Prison Experiment.'” Being very proud of that piece, I now reposted it here: https://www.academia.edu/37656489/ (and also on ResearchGate.net), to make it accessible again.
The question remains:
Why this censorship by Nottingham university? In fact, I have learned that it is not just me: Several other scholars have had their published scholarship deleted by Nottingham.
In my view, it is impossible to avoid speculating that it has something to do with Nottingham running a campus in Ningbo, China — a city infamous as the site where the Chinese regime initially detained my fellow Swedish citizen #GuiMinhai, Hong Kong bookstore co-owner, publisher, and writer who was illegally kidnapped from Thailand in 2015, then paraded on Chinese state TV, and subsequently imprisoned in Ningbo. Currently he has been held totally incomunicado for over 6 years, and we no longer have any news or knowledge about our citizen’s whereabouts (for more see: freeguiminhai.org).
I would like to have the help of all at Nottingham Ningbo to press the Chinese authorities for news of our kidnapped citizen, who remains a citizen of Sweden as well as of the European Union. Many with me want to know if our citizen #GuiMinhai is still alive, if the Chinese regime have already killed him in their Ningbo prison — or if they will free him and let him return to Sweden, as Sweden’s government and the EU has requested, ever since 2015.
I also want answers from Nottingham about the apparent censorship spree at Nottingham University’s main campus Asia Research Institute. What is going on? Why?
Magnus Fiskesjö