A Taiwanese man who was detained in China for nearly two months on Monday said he had been forced to show remorse in exchange for his safe return to the island.
Chung Ting-pang, a follower of the Falungong -- a spiritual movement banned in China -- was arrested and placed under "house arrest" as he checked in for his return flight from the Chinese mainland on June 18.
The technology manager, 53, returned to Taiwan on Saturday.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency said Chung, who was accused of endangering Chinese national security and public safety, had "confessed and shown remorse", an allegation he flatly rejected.
"The so-called confession and remorse was not done under my free will," Chung told reporters in the company of his wife and daughter during a press conference in Taipei.
Chung said his trip was simply to visit relatives.
However, he admitted that in the three years to 2006 he had made and sent to Falungong members satellite equipment that had been used to broadcast the beliefs outlawed in China.
"As a Falungong member, I had done something in order to let the people in China not misunderstand and hate Falungong... People in the mainland have the right to know the truth," he said.
His release came just after Taiwan and China signed a landmark investment pact, underlining warming ties since 2008, when Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang party came to power on a platform of beefing up trade and tourism links.
Falungong followers and Chung's family had held protests to turn up the heat on the China-friendly government and his family appealed to a US congressman for help in securing Chung's release.
The political opposition have repeatedly accused Ma of showing weak leadership regarding China's human rights record.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 at the end of a civil war.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-man-says-forced-show-remorse-china-232635382.html
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