A Taiwanese fisher has returned home after four months of detention in China. The fisherman was picked up by the Chinese coast guard after his boat got lost in fog off the coast of Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Islands. He was suspected of working for Taiwan’s military and detained.
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00:00A Taiwanese fisher has returned home to the Jinmen Islands after being held for four months
00:05in China.
00:06The fisher was picked up by the Chinese Coast Guard in March.
00:10The man, surnamed Hu, and another fisher had strayed off course in their boat after setting
00:14sail from Jinmen, which lies just a few kilometers from the Chinese coast.
00:20The other man was released immediately, but Chinese authorities suspected Hu of being
00:24a member of Taiwan's military and refused to allow him to return home.
00:30After months of negotiations, he was finally reunited with his family.
00:34They travelled together with Jinmen's lawmaker Chen Yuzhen to bring him home from the Chinese
00:38city of Xiamen.