18-07-2015
China will deport nine foreign tourists whom it detained last weekend, apparently after some of them they watched a documentary on Genghis Khan in their hotel room, a spokesman for two of the tourists said on Saturday.
The release of the group - five South Africans, three Britons and an Indian - signals the end of a case that sparked international consternation and outcry.
Authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia detained the mostly elderly travellers last weekend along with 11 others in their group while they were on a 47-day historical tour of China.
A South African charity that has spoken to the media on behalf of relatives of the detained, said earlier mainland authorities had told their governments that some in the group had watched "terror" videos, linked to a banned group.
Mainland authorities have not specified what crime the tourists were suspected of committing, saying only they were suspected of breaking the law.
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