Itanagar, Nov. 25 -- A woman from Arunachal Pradesh, currently living in the United Kingdom, has alleged that she was detained for nearly 18 hours at Shanghai airport after Chinese immigration officials refused to recognise the validity of her Indian passport during a transit halt, raising serious concerns over Beijing's repeated attempts to challenge India's territorial sovereignty.
Pem Wang Thongdok, who was travelling from London to Japan on November 21, claimed that her scheduled three-hour layover turned into a traumatising ordeal when immigration officials declared her passport "invalid" solely because it listed Arunachal Pradesh as her place of birth.
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