Today monday,Taiwan accused China of kidnapping eight of its nationals who it said had been acquitted in a cyber crime case in Kenya.Kenya's attorney general said in January it was considering a request from Beijing to extradite 76 Chinese charged with cyber crime in Kenya for trial in their homeland.But Taiwan said some of these people were actually from Taiwan and that a total of 23 of its people had been acquitted last Tuesday by a Kenyan court and given 21 days to leave.Yet China pressured Kenyan police to put eight of the Taiwanese nationals on to a Chinese jet bound for China on friday,Taiwan's Foreign Ministry said.It did not say how they were taken.The ministry said in a statement, that ''This is an uncivilized act of Illegal kidnapping and a serious violation of basic human rights''.Adding that it was demanding the immediate return of the eight.Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party,which distrusts China,also weighed in on the issue,demanding China ''repatriate our people and guarantee their legal rights''.China views Taiwan as a wayward province,to be brought under Beijing's control by force if necessary.Defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island in 1949 after a civil war with the Communists now in control in Beijing.One more photo below. 
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