Military honor guards lower the Taiwanese flag, at Liberty Square, in Taipei, Taiwan April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan prosecutors angered China over the weekend by freeing 20 Taiwanese suspected of defrauding Chinese nationals in a telecoms scam but on Thursday changed their minds, taking most of them into custody on suspicion of committing "serious crime".
The move came as island officials are in Beijing this week to negotiate the return of 45 of its citizens who were forcibly sent to China from Kenya and linked to a similar telephone fraud case abroad against Chinese nationals.
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