Simon Cheng is back in Hong Kong after being detained for 15 days in China for an alleged crime that his family says was made up.
In a statement posted on the Twitter-like Weibo, Shenzhen police said he was"punished with administrative detention for 15 days...for violating the law of the People's Republic of China on public safety management."
The incident came as relations between Britain and China have become strained over what Beijing calls London's"interference" inWhile in detention Chinese state media published lurid allegations about Cheng and the possible reason for his detention.a tabloid state-run newspaper, said he had been detained for"soliciting prostitutes," citing police in Shenzhen.
Bu the protesters who have tipped the city into an unprecedented political crisis say these rights are being chipped away. Beijing has faced criticism in the past for detaining foreign nationals amid ongoing diplomatic spats, and for accusing dissidents or activists of sex crimes.Friday in a recreation of the Baltic Way human chain demonstration against Soviet rule 3 decades ago.
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