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Taiwanese detained in China ‘confesses’ on state TV

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Daily Mail
Date: 11 October 2020
By: AFP

​Trucks and armoured personnel carriers parked at Shenzhen Bay stadium in Shenzhen on August 16, 2019. The manoeuvres in Shenzhen came during massive protests across the border in Hong Kong

A Taiwanese man detained in China and accused of "endangering national security" appeared on Chinese television Sunday evening, admitting to illegally filming military exercises in a city bordering Hong Kong during protests there last year.

Relatives of Lee Meng-chu had said he went missing after crossing from Hong Kong into Shenzhen on August 19, 2019.

Hong Kong was then in the throes of months-long mass demonstrations against a law allowing extradition to China, the territory's government and the central government in Beijing.

At the time, thousands of Chinese military police had gathered in a stadium in Shenzhen for exercises with armoured vehicles.    [FULL  STORY]

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