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.