Extraditions of Taiwanese to China a concern: groupBy Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporterAbout 610 Taiwanese nationals accused of crimes in other countries were extradited to China from 2016 to 2019, international non-governmental organization (NGO) Safeguard Defenders said yesterday, calling on the international community to intervene in the practice. About 610 Taiwanese nationals accused of crimes in other countries were extradited to China from 2016 to 2019. But one group that has received far less attention to date: hundreds of Taiwanese nationals have been detained and forcibly extradited to mainland China from around the world,” the group said in a news release yesterday. In 2014, China began pressuring Kenya over a group of more than 70 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals wanted for suspected telecommunications fraud, and in 2016 Kenya agreed to transfer some of them to China, it said. “At least two of the Taiwanese nationals were later shown delivering televised forced confessions in China,” it said.

Source: Taipei Times November 30, 2021 18:59 UTC