Eight Taiwanese nationals were forcibly extradited to China on April 8, 2016, along with a group of PRC nationals. The eight Taiwanese extradited to China had been cleared of charges of telecommunications fraud by a court in in Kenya and were among a total of 37 individuals — 23 of them Taiwanese — who were acquitted of fraud in an April 5 Kenya High Court decision and were given 21 days to leave Kenya. One of the eight is reportedly a Taiwanese-American. The remaining 15 Taiwanese were put on a plane to China on Tuesday, also in defiance of the court order. Chinese officials in Kenya reportedly pressured Kenyan authorities to send the Taiwanese nationals to China. Taiwanese foreign ministry officials dispatched from South Africa (Taiwan has no official diplomatic relations with and no representative office in Kenya) have been denied access to the Taiwanese individuals. According to an official from the Africa division at Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a total of 45 Taiwanese nationals based in Kenya have been extradited to China in two unrelated cases.