New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta is confident that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will not torture or give an unfair trial to the New Zealand (NZ) permanent resident facing extradition to China.
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, Mahuta believes the CCP will abide by its promises due to the otherwise negative publicity it would bring to the regime.
The country’s Supreme Court ruled in April that Kyung Yup Kim, suspected of murdering a young woman in Shanghai in 2009, could be extradited to China in a landmark decision.
The decision was made after the CCP agreed to give assurances that Kim would be held in Shanghai both before and after the trial, if convicted….