Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/26
By: Tang Pei-chun and Elaine Hou

Taipei, July 26 (CNA) A Kenyan court has postponed the trial of five Taiwanese suspects on charges of fraud operations in Kenya for a fifth time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday.

The Kenyan court was scheduled to have brought the Taiwanese suspects to trial Tuesday, but the trial has now been postponed to Aug. 23, the ministry confirmed.

The ministry said it will continue to closely monitor related developments and make every effort to ensure they are not deported to China.

Taiwan’s representative to South Africa John Chen (陳忠) called a news conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, urging the authorities there to respect the human rights of the Taiwanese suspects and calling for Kenya to send them back to Taiwan.

It was the fifth time Kenya had postponed the trial since April, when the African country announced the opening of a court session on the fraud case involving the Taiwanese suspects, the MOFA said.     [FULL  STORY]