BEIJING: Two Americans, who run an English-teaching business in China, have been detained in the east of the country, according to their company, which said they were being held on “bogus” charges. Jacob Harlan, a father of five, and Alyssa Petersen were nabbed in Jiangsu province last month, their Idaho-based company China Horizons said on its Facebook page. A gofundme.com page set up to raise money for Petersen’s legal fees says she was formally charged with “illegally moving people across borders”. China Horizons, which arranges for Americans to teach English at Chinese schools, said it would shut down at the end of October. “Unfortunately, because of increasing political and economic problems between the US and China, we are no longer able to send teachers to china safely,” the company wrote on its Facebook page.

Source: Pakistan Today October 17, 2019 04:18 UTC