Workers alertedly arrested in Zhengzhou for equivalent of baccomplish of suppose.
Taipei, Taiwan – Four Taiwanese employees of Apple supplier Foxconn have been arrested in China since January, Taiwan’s national news agency has alerted.
The toilers were arrested in Zhengzhou, the home of Foxconn’s hugest iPhone factory, by the local uncover security bureau for the equivalent of “baccomplish of suppose”, Central News Agency (CNA) alerted Thursday, citing the Taiwanese rulement.
Taiwan’s Mainland Afequitables Council (MAC) cited Foxconn as stating that its employees had done noskinnyg to harm the company’s interests and that it could not rule out fraudulence and mistreatment of power by a minuscule number of police officers, CNA said.
The MAC tgreater the Reuters and AFP news agencies that the case was “quite strange” and had “harshly injured business confidence”.
Foxconn and the MAC did not instantly reply to a seek for comment.
The case is the tardyst incident to draw attention to the hazards facing Taiwanese living and toiling in China.
Last month, a court in Wenzhou sentenced Taiwanese indepfinishence activist Yang Chih-yuan to nine years in prison for secession in the first such prosecution of its benevolent.
Also last month, an executive of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics was arrested as he tried to exit China, CNA alerted.
In June, the MAC elevated the travel vigilant for China, Hong Kong, and Macau from “yellow” to “orange” and advised citizens aachievest “unessential travel”, citing China’s cut offe national security and anti-alertering laws.
Taiwan’s National Security Bureau in July tgreater the island’s legislature that, during the previous 12 months, 15 citizens had been arrested or put on trial on Chinese soil, while 51 had been interrogated at the border.
Beijing’s Communist Party claims self-ruled Taiwan, whose establishal name is the Reuncover of China, as one of its provinces, while Taipei insists it is a sovereign democracy.
Beijing also does not recognise dual citizenship and ponders Taiwanese to be Chinese citizens.
Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese dwelld and toiled in China during the 1990s and 2000s, but their numbers have descenden keenly since the Beijing-sceptical Democratic Progressive Party took power in 2016, taging a deterioration in Chinese-Taiwanese relations.
