{"id":48247,"date":"2015-07-19T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=48247 "},"modified":"2015-07-19T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T23:27:00","slug":"48247-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=48247","title":{"rendered":"British tourist arrested in China calls for apology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police building in Ordos, Inner Mongolia<\/div>
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The tour group was arrested at Ordos airport in Inner Mongolia<\/div>
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A British man arrested along with 19 other tourists in Inner Mongolia has criticised Chinese authorities for a “serious error of judgement”.<\/div>
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Hoosain Jacobs, 74, and his wife Tahira, 68, from west London, were part of the group detained while on a tour of the sites of ancient China.<\/div>
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Police in the city of Ordos have declined to comment on the case but no charges were brought.<\/div>
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Mr Jacobs said officials there should apologise for their behaviour.<\/div>
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Following the couple’s return to the UK on Saturday, a spokesman for the Jacobs family suggested the arrests had resulted from Chinese officials mistaking a documentary watched by the tour group for a terrorist video.<\/div>
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Chinese authorities have remained tight-lipped on the reasons for the arrests, as Carrie Gracie reports<\/div>
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In a statement on Sunday, Mr Jacobs said: “I can understand that officials in Ordos wish to repair their reputation in relation to their treatment of tourists visiting their country.<\/div>
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“However, it would have been better if they had apologised instead for the serious error of judgement on their side.<\/div>
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“It is completely wrong of them to ascribe any sort of illicit activities to myself, or indeed to anyone else in this peaceful tour group.”<\/div>
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Mr Jacobs “categorically” denied that any of the group was “charged for anything of any kind”.<\/div>
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The tour group members were arrested by police on 10 July at the airport in Ordos.<\/div>
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They are said to have watched a film about the 13th Century Mongol warlord Genghis Khan to help them get the most out of the trip.<\/div>
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But Chinese officials may have mistaken it for a terrorist video, a Jacobs family spokesman has claimed.<\/div>
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Mr Jacobs said: “The only things watched by myself and the group was a short clip of the 10 best Western cowboy films of all time and a 40-minute BBC documentary on Genghis Khan.<\/div>
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“These were watched from a laptop computer in our hotel.<\/div>
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“I think it is fairly obvious that our tour group would not have been<\/div>
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<div>Mr Jacobs said officials there should apologise for their behaviour. Following the couple's return to the UK on Saturday, a spokesman for the Jacobs family suggested the arrests had resulted from Chinese officials mistaking a documentary watched by the tour group for a terrorist video.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}