They seem to have a vendetta against native born Asians who have moved to the US. They've been detaining a lot of them. Here's another disturbing story:
09/11/2001 - Updated 07:59 AM ET Lawyer: Businessman held illegally in China hospitalBEIJING (AP) — A U.S.-based Chinese businessman has been held for almost five weeks in a hospital in violation of Chinese law, his American lawyer said Tuesday.
Liu Yaping, 46, was moved from jail to a hospital Aug. 7 during a U.S. Senate delegation's visit to Beijing, said lawyer Jerome Cohen. Liu, a permanent U.S. resident, is being held in the northern city of Hohot in the Inner Mongolia region.
Liu is guarded around the clock and barred from making phone calls, though he was released under a form of supervision that was supposed to let him move freely within the city, said Cohen.
Cohen, a New York University law professor and expert on Chinese law, has advised the families of several Chinese-born U.S. citizens and permanent residents detained recently in China.
Liu has a life-threatening brain aneurysm but has been refused treatment even though his family is being charged $25 a day for his hospital stay, Cohen said.
Liu was first detained in March, reportedly on charges of tax evasion and fraud. His lawyers say he is innocent and is a victim of a local power struggle in Hohot.
"Every day the authorities tell him that some leader will be back to handle his case and that something good will happen," Cohen said by telephone from New York. "It's a blatant violation of Chinese criminal law."
Read the rest; it ain't pretty.
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