TAIWANESE CITIZENS FORCED OUT OF KENYA [DETAILS]

Close to 50 people Taiwanese citizens were forced out of Kenya by the country’s police force who used tear gas to ensure they got on a plane heading to China. Reports say the affected Taiwanese citizens were forced against their will and this could spark tension and a diplomatic row between both nations.

Accordingly, it was said that one of the affected individuals was quoted as saying, “sir! We are Taiwan people, Taiwan people!” In a grainy cellphone video allegedly shot inside a Kenyan jail, a group of men barricade the cell door as a woman’s voice warns them to be careful of the armed police outside.
The police later used tear gas to force the prisoners out of their cell and onto a plane to China, Taiwan Foreign Ministry official Antonio Chen told reporters Tuesday.
Taiwan has denounced the “extrajudicial abduction” of its citizens as a “gross violation of basic human rights” and accused Kenyan and Chinese officials of ignoring a local High Court’s injunction against the deportations.

The alleged abductions come after a protracted legal affair in Kenya involving both Chinese and Taiwanese workers in the country who were accused of running a complex phone and internet scamming operation. A Kenyan court acquitted the Taiwanese of all charges after which they were released. But their freedom was short lived, according to Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry, which said in a statement that the workers were detained by police when they attempted to retrieve their passports on April 5.

The Ministry said that “dozens of those detained were then “forcefully taken to a passenger plane of China Southern Airlines and sent to the mainland.” The China’s Ministry of Public Security also stated that Kenya is in the process of deporting 32 Chinese and 45 Taiwanese workers, all of whom it is sending to mainland China.