China denies harassing Indian woman at Shanghai airport, calls action lawful

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A day after a woman from Arunachal Pradesh, Pema Wangjom Thongdok, alleged harassment at Shanghai's Pudong Airport, China refuted the claims, stating that actions taken by immigration officials were in accordance with their laws.

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00:00big news coming in this is related to the the torture apparent torture that was alleged by

00:12a woman from Arunachal Pradesh in China now China is coming out and saying that the allegations of

00:21harassment of Indian woman at the Shanghai Airport are false China is saying that they

00:27had taken actions against the woman according to the law and they were taken by the Chinese

00:34immigration officials according to the regulations so they are definitely there refusing to acknowledge

00:40Arunachal as part of India remember the woman was from Arunachal Pradesh and so was her passport

00:46which reflected that joining us for more on this is India Today Global's Pranay Upadhai Pranay

00:53they are clearly not stating as to why the woman was stopped but they are saying that it is

01:01according to their regulations now how do we perceive this? Anjali when India Today first

01:08brought her story to the world it was it was really shocking to know that you know how Prema was detained

01:14on a very ludicrous grounds and she was not given any reason she was not given any justification that

01:20why she was detained for for over 18 hours in Shanghai while she was only there on on Shanghai

01:28Pudong Airport for a transit because she was on her route from London to Osaka in Japan and she had a

01:34stopover of nearly about three hours in Shanghai but she was stopped she was isolated she was harassed and

01:40she was not given proper treatment and she was harassed because and she was asked she was told that you know

01:47she's traveling on an Indian passport while she should be having a Chinese passport because because China is as

01:55they claim that that Arunachal Pradesh is part of China and she should be having a Chinese passport but the

02:00intention was not to harass to to make her have a Chinese nationality or she was given any paper to apply for a

02:07Chinese passport but the intention was to harass her and the the way she was detained for about 18 hours

02:12and the way the kind of treatment she was given to this was clearly an harass a case of harassment and

02:17that's why the government of India has raised it in a strongest term both in New Delhi and in Beijing and

02:22as well as in Shanghai at the level of the local authorities that how an Indian national born in

02:26Arunachal Pradesh was detained and the kind of treatment she was subjected to in in China was

02:34totally unacceptable and Arunachal Pradesh will remain an integral part of India and

02:40in fact the government of India has also raised the issue that this behavior of the Chinese immigration

02:44authorities as well as of the Chinese eastern airlines people staff there was actually in

02:49contribution it's in contradiction with the Chicago and the Montreal convention which actually ensured the

02:55right of the civilian passengers uh you know across the the airlines and while they are they travel for

03:02transit because uh when you travel on any airport or any any airline you are uh you are on an air side

03:08you are not entering a territory of a country when you are on a transit flight so clearly uh Prema uh

03:14Wangjom Thangduk she was subjected to this harassment now the government of India has taken up this issue

03:19with the champions with the with the Chinese authorities and asked them in the strongest term that this they

03:24should uh they shouldn't uh they shouldn't be subjecting any Indian citizen this may have beat Arunachal

03:28bond or any other

03:38you

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