Kenyan police tear gassed Taiwanese onto plane


Seeing is believing: Johnny Chiang, a legislator from the Kuomintang party, displaying a video clip showing Taiwanese detained at a police station in Kenya, during a press conference at Parliament in Taipei. — AFP

TAIPEI: Kenyan police broke through a police station wall and threw tear gas to force a second group of Taiwanese on to a plane bound for China, Taiwan’s foreign ministry said, in a bizarre diplomatic row in which Taiwan has accused China of abduction.

But a senior Kenyan official said the people were in Kenya illegally and were being sent back to where they had come from.

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