Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/11/20
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) Taiwanese cyclist Tsao Yao-wen (曹耀文) said Tuesday he will never visit China again, after his "horrifying experience" of being arrested, interrogated and held in custody there for four days on suspicion of espionage, during a cycling tour from China to Mongolia earlier this year.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Tsao said he was arrested by Chinese soldiers on May 31 at the border between Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of northern China, on suspicion that he was spying for Taiwan.

Tsao said the soldiers, from what he vaguely recalled as the "3XX Brigade's 12th Battalion," later took him to a nearby military camp, where all of his identification and travel documents were confiscated, and he was photographed and questioned.

His interrogators asked him to list every school he had attended and give the dates, from kindergarten to university, and to name his teachers at all levels, Tsao said.    [FULL  STORY]