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The travellers – a group of 20 friends and family – are mainly wealthy professionals and retirees, from South African, Britain and Indian on a bespoke tour of \u201cancient China\u201d.<\/p>\n
They were arrested just before 10am on Friday morning as they boarded a plane from the city of Ordos in the semi-autonomous region on the border with Russia.
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The group, made up of doctors and company directors, had been visiting a mausoleum dedicated to Ghengis Khan as part of a 45-day tour of China.
\nAccording to relatives, their mobile phones were confiscated and they have been held without charge in police cells, unable to contact family or seek consular help, for 48 hours. On Monday, their tour guide realised they were missing and raised the alarm.
\nNo charges have yet been brought and the Chinese authorities remain tight-lipped about the reason for the arrests. They suggested to relatives that some of those detained had been watching \u201cpropaganda videos\u201d in their hotel rooms.
\nAmong those being held are retirees Ismail Jacobs, 72, a former member of the ANC\u2019s armed wing which fought apartheid who is in his 60s, and his wife Tahira, 67, who have dual South African-British nationality.
\nLike many anti-apartheid activists, the couple lived in exile in the UK before the advent of democracy in 1994. They have a detached home in Hounslow and owned beauty companies and nail bars in Middlesex, but are thought to now live in South Africa.
\nMr Jacobs is the uncle of Shameel Joosub, CEO of Vodacom, the South African arm of mobile phone giant Vodafone. Mr Joosub\u2019s brother, Salim Aziz Joosub, the CEO of another technology firm in South Africa, has also detained.
\nMr Joosub said in a statement that he was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d for their wellbeing. \u201cAlong with 17 other South African, British and Indian citizens, they were detained on 10 July by the Chinese authorities at the airport in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and held without charge,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cWe are in close contact with the South African authorities who are working to secure their release.\u201d
\nOthers who have been identified include Dr Feroz Suliman, a South African surgeon at a private hospital near Johannesburg, and his wife Shehnaaz Mohamed, also a medical doctor.
\nThe identities of the 15 other tourists are not yet known.
\nAfter intervention by British and South African consular teams on Tuesday morning, 11 of the 20 have been told they are free to leave \u2013 but will be held in custody in Ordos until the next flight departs on July 19.
\nThe remaining nine people, three Britons, five South Africans and the Indian national, were on Tuesday afternoon still being held without charge. Mr Jacobs and his wife are understood to be among those still facing the prospect of charges.
\nInner Mongolia has no known terror or rebel groups so it remains unclear which organisation they were suspected of links to.
\nGift of the Givers, a South African charity which usually negotiates hostage releases as well as conducting aid drops, was contacted by Mr Joosub for help alerting the authorities.
\n\u201cThe families call upon the Chinese government to release the detainees immediately,\u201d the charity said in a statement. \u201cThese individuals have no terror links, no criminal record in their country.\u201d
\nThe arrest is particularly awkward for South Africa, whose deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa is on a state visit to China, a key ally and fellow member of the BRICS economic grouping, at present.
\nImtiaz Sooliman, founder of GoTG, said he understood the arrests were carried out by airport police after an order from the national police headquarters in Beijing.
\n\u201cThere were no charges put to them and their cell phones were confiscated so they could not tell anyone they had been arrested,\u201d he told The Telegraph.
\n\u201cIt was then mentioned that one of the group had links to a terror group but they haven\u2019t said which. The tour guide has seen them \u2013 they apparently look in good health but they are being held in conditions that are not good, in cells.\u201d
\nHe said the group was a mixture of family members and friends, some of whom had travelled together to other parts of the world previously.
\nHe said that they had opted to include a doctor in their group because some of the travellers were over 60.
\nA spokesman for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was making enquiries into the reasons for the arrests.
\n\u201cNine British nationals, and two dual British-South African nationals have been detained in northern China. Consular staff have visited the group to provide assistance and we are liaising with Chinese authorities,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"