{"id":24646,"date":"2016-04-16T03:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T03:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/taiwanese-deported-to-china-from-kenya-admit-to\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T03:48:11","slug":"taiwanese-deported-to-china-from-kenya-admit-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/taiwanese-deported-to-china-from-kenya-admit-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese deported to China from Kenya admit to crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan police deported 45 Taiwanese to China\u2019s mainland this week.}<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s state media has shown Taiwanese deported from Kenya \u201cconfessing\u201d to fraud while under police detention, the latest development in a case which has enraged Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan police deported 45 Taiwanese to China\u2019s mainland this week. Taipei said several of them had been acquitted of crimes in the African country, and accused Beijing of \u201cabduction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s state broadcaster CCTV showed two Taiwanese in a Beijing detention centre apparently admitting to crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Such confessions have become common in Chinese state-media in recent years. Lawyers say they deny defendants the right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV said the Taiwanese suspects pretended to be officials to gain personal details from mainland citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI impersonated Beijing police,\u201d CCTV showed one Taiwanese man surnamed Jian as saying.<\/p>\n<p>A Taiwanese man whose surname was given as Xu was shown saying that \u201cbecause I had committed fraud previously&#8230; I was responsible for impersonation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>WEARING HOODS<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, state media showed the suspects on a flight to China, wearing hoods and flanked by police officers.<\/p>\n<p>China considers Taiwan one of its provinces awaiting reunification \u2014 by force if necessary \u2014 though the island has ruled itself since the civil war ended in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Relations have often been tense, and the landslide election victory of independence-leaning Tsai Ing-wen in January\u2019s presidential poll raised fears that Beijing would seek to assert its stance more forcefully.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s public security ministry said this week that Beijing had \u201clegal rights of jurisdiction\u201d over the Taiwanese suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Taipei earlier said officials from the Chinese mainland \u201cabducted\u201d the first group of citizens, deported at the weekend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11719 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/708411-01-02.jpg\" alt=\"Masked alleged fraud suspects are escorted by unseen policemen as they arrive at Taoyuan Airport in Taoyuan on April 15, 2016.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan police deported 45 Taiwanese to China\u2019s mainland this week.} China\u2019s state media has shown Taiwanese deported from Kenya \u201cconfessing\u201d to fraud while under police detention, the latest development in a case which has enraged Taipei. Kenyan police deported 45 Taiwanese to China\u2019s mainland this week. Taipei said several of them had been acquitted of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24646"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24646"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}