Sweden puts ex-envoy on trial over China dissident negotiations

Sweden's former ambassador to China went on trial in Stockholm on Friday accused of overstepping her mandate and risking national security by trying to negotiate the release of a dissident. Anna Lindstedt faces up to two years in prison if she is convicted of brokering an unauthorised meeting in January last year when she was ambassador. Lindstedt, a former envoy in both Vietnam and Mexico who acted as Sweden's chief negotiator at the 2015 climate summit in Paris, denies the charge.

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