Taiwan Says China Detains 4 Apple Supplier Employees Under ‘Quite Strange’ Circumstances

A glass door bearing the logo of the Foxconn technology group at the company's plant in Shenzhen, China, on May 26, 2010. Voishmel/AFP via Getty Images

TAIPEI–Four employees of Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, have been detained in China under “quite strange” circumstances, Taiwan’s government said.

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, in a statement to Reuters on Thursday, said the four employees had been detained in China’s Zhengzhou, home to a major Foxconn plant assembling Apple’s iPhones, on suspicion of the equivalent of “breach of trust.”