diff --git a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
index ccfd9dafff..6b0d4ba860 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/crates-io.scm
@@ -27381,6 +27381,30 @@ (define-public rust-htmlescape-0.3
      "This package provides a library for HTML entity encoding and decoding.")
     (license (list license:asl2.0 license:expat license:mpl2.0))))
 
+(define-public rust-html-escape-0.2
+  (package
+    (name "rust-html-escape")
+    (version "0.2.9")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (crate-uri "html-escape" version))
+              (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "1dxw9lpckrqzzqgbkw64ckbajr4b7xxnjdn8adgzqf2mm40shvl1"))))
+    (build-system cargo-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:cargo-inputs
+       (("rust-utf8-width" ,rust-utf8-width-0.1))
+       #:cargo-development-inputs
+       (("rust-bencher" ,rust-bencher-0.1))))
+    (home-page "https://magiclen.org/html-escape")
+    (synopsis "Library for encoding and escaping special characters in HTML")
+    (description
+     "This package provides a library for encoding and escaping special
+characters in HTML, decoding and unescaping HTML entities as well.")
+    (license license:expat)))
+
 (define-public rust-http-0.2
   (package
     (name "rust-http")