Taipei regrets Spain's decision to send Taiwanese suspects to China
ROC Central News Agency
2017/02/18 21:03:45
Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Saturday expressed regret at a plan by Spain to deport a group of Taiwanese telecom fraud suspects to China.
In a Cabinet meeting held a day earlier, the Spanish government decided to accept Beijing's request to extradite 269 Taiwanese and Chinese nationals recently arrested in the European country for their involvement in telecom fraud, according to the MOFA.
The decision has infringed upon the rights of the Republic of China (Taiwan) nationals and defies the European tradition of humanism, the ministry said.
The suspects were arrested in December in a joint operation between Spain and China, and more than 200 out of the 269 were ROC nationals, the ministry said.
Over the past two months, the ROC government has been negotiating with Spain in the hope that the Taiwanese suspects could be brought back to Taiwan for investigation and trial, but the request did not receive any response from Spain, the MOFA said.
Also Saturday, the Mainland Affairs Council said it has conveyed to the Chinese side that Taiwan hopes to bring the Taiwanese suspects home and urged Beijing to reopen dialogue with Taipei so that problems can be solved in a pragmatic manner.
(By Mou Tzung-han and Y.F. Low)
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