In response to the fact that a Taiwanese youth who once worked for Amnesty International was interrogated when entering Shanghai, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said this morning (2) that the organization “has repeatedly stirred up trouble and spread rumors to defame the mainland.” It is “completely appropriate and legal” for the Border Inspection Department to investigate individual personnel working for this organization. In response, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council responded in the evening that the government has repeatedly reminded Taiwanese people that traveling to China poses significantly increased personal security risks. As the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office acknowledged today, “One must not stop Communist Party of China Whiteness.”
In response to the above matter, the Mainland Affairs Council responded in writing on the evening of the 2nd that the government has repeatedly reminded Taiwanese people that traveling to China poses significantly increased personal safety risks and they should carefully assess the need before traveling to China. However, some people in Taiwan have always believed that the government is being cautious. “Now that the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council has confessed today, no one should stop whitewashing the CCP.”
The Mainland Affairs Council further explained that from the case of Amnesty International, we can know that the Chinese Communist Party regards civilian groups as a crisis to which the Chinese people are accustomed, and believes that this kind of interrogation is reasonable and legal. The government should once again remind the Chinese people that the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly revised national security laws in recent years and abused its power to interrogate, detain, and even arrest our people. Chinese people should be cautious about the political environment they face in mainland China and think carefully about the need to move to the mainland.
According to previous reports, a netizen recently posted on the social platform Threads that her son went to Shanghai for a business trip. While clearing customs, he was stopped and taken to a secret room. Three plainclothes officers interrogated him for six hours. Three plainclothes officers focused on the subject’s experience working for the human rights group “Amnesty International” and asked him to unlock his mobile phone and examine conversation records and relevant work files.
Zhang Han, spokesperson for Mainland China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said on the morning of the 2nd that Amnesty International “is willing to serve as the vanguard of international anti-China forces and has repeatedly caused trouble and spread rumors to defame the mainland. It is completely reasonable and legal for the border inspection department to investigate individual personnel working for this organization.”
The Mainland Affairs Council recently responded to the Central News Agency and said that although the social media poster did not report it to the government, the experience described was indeed consistent with similar cases that the Mainland Affairs Council has learned about in the past. The CCP is hostile towards NGO personnel who are concerned about human rights, environmental protection, public power supervision, labor, gender diversity and other issues. There have been cases in the past where people who participated in Taiwan’s political activities in their early years but later moved into non-political areas were retroactively eliminated and severely punished by the CCP. Chinese people should not ignore them.
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According to reports, the young man once worked for Amnesty International. When he entered Shanghai, he was stopped by border inspectors and interrogated for six hours. They focused on questioning her relevant experience and were asked to unlock her phone and examine conversation records and work files.
Zhang Han, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said Amnesty International has repeatedly spread rumors and rumors to defame the mainland. Therefore, it is completely appropriate and legal for the border inspection department to review individual personnel working for the organization.
The Mainland Affairs Council pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly revised national security laws in recent years, has a hostile attitude towards NGO personnel working on human rights, environmental protection, labor and other issues, and may abuse its power to interrogate, detain and even make arrests, and called on Chinese people to be vigilant about the need to go to the mainland.
