New reports indicate that Kenya has sparked a serious diplomatic row between the Chinese and Taiwan Governments.
Kenya reportedly deported to Beijing, China, suspects whom Taiwan claims are her citizens and have been kidnapped by the Chinese administration.
On Monday, Taiwan accused China of kidnapping eight of its nationals who were acquitted in a cybercrime case in Kenya.
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According to a Reuters report, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry asserted that China pressured Kenyan police to put eight of the Taiwanese nationals on to a Chinese jet enroute to Beijing on Friday.
"This is an uncivilized act of illegal kidnapping and a serious violation of basic human rights," the ministry said in a statement, adding that it was demanding the immediate return of the eight.
China and Taiwan have for long been at loggerheads, with China holding a view that Taiwan is a wayward province, that should be brought under Beijing's control by force if necessary.
The Taiwan Foreign Minister indicated that his country had sent officials from its representative office in South Africa to Kenya, to deal with the case as it did not have an office in Kenya.
Attorney-General Githu Muigai early this year indicated that the government was considering a request from Beijing to extradite 76 Chinese nationals charged with cybercrime in Kenya for trial in their homeland.
Taiwan, however, argued that 23 of the suspects people were actually its nationals who had been acquitted last Tuesday by a Kenyan court and given 21 days to leave the country.
On Thursday, last week 37 Chinese nationals arrested in 2014 on suspicion of engaging in illegal cyber operations were granted freedom by a Nairobi court.
