The daughter of a Hong Kong-based publisher believed abducted by Chinese authorities eight months ago has appeared before a US congressional commission urging Washington's help to win his release.
The author, Gui Minhai, is one of five men associated with a publishing house whose disappearance late last year raised international concern that Beijing is clamping down on the semi-autonomous Chinese city's freedom of speech.
College student Angela Gui said she spoke to her father by phone about one month ago but she does not know where in China he is.
He was last seen in Thailand in October. He appeared on Chinese state TV in January, confessing that he'd turned himself in to mainland authorities over a hit-and-run accident. The daughter said she believed the statement was coerced.
