The Disappeared - China’s Global Kidnapping Campaign

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The Disappeared - China’s Global Kidnapping Campaign

China uses kidnapping and coercion to force high profile Chinese nationals to return. Read more in Foreign Policy.

Before he disappeared from his luxury apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2017, Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire, favored female bodyguards. Why, exactly, was unclear: Perhaps he simply liked being surrounded by women; perhaps he trusted them more than men.

Whatever the reason, those guards weren’t much help when a group of mysterious men showed up at his apartment that January day and took him away. According to anonymous sources who viewed the hotel’s internal video feed and later spoke to the press, Xiao, who may have been sedated, was rolled through the Four Seasons lobby in a wheelchair, a sheet covering his head. He was then reportedly loaded onto a boat and ferried to the Chinese mainland.

Read more at: https://www.themaven.net/humanrightsfoundation/asia-pacific/the-disappeared-china-s-global-kidnapping-campaign-9ir4D5Vm3UOApGdLaTljRQ/?full=1

Story is reprinted possibly from an article that is a few months old. Still valid news.