On Tuesday, he was handed over to the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office, he said. Prosecutor Tseng Chun-tseh (曾俊哲) took Ma back to the recruitment center to reconstruct his movements before further questioning.
“The prosecutor asked if I intentionally went into the restricted area and if I knew it was a restricted area. I said ‘no’ to both questions,” Ma said in the interview. “The prosecutor then gave me my camera back, but kept the memory card.”
“I was then told I was free to go, but [the prosecutor] didn’t explain why,” Ma said, adding that he left Taiwan later that day.
“I’m very upset about how some media outlets tried to portray me as a spy and about being handcuffed while I was transferred to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office,” he said.
Ma also called the call-in show 2100 The Public Speaking Out (2100全民開講) on Wednesday night and said that when the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors’ Office made the decision about his custody, it did not mention anything about him having to return to Taiwan for questioning.
Asked whether he would return to Taiwan to face questioning if that were required of him, Ma said: “Not unless somebody treats me to a meal.”
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LIN CHING-CHUAN
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