Cui Xiaoli

A JORDANIAN woman who had been deported from China for committing theft was caught by border police last week while attempting to re-enter the country using a fake Turkish passport.

The woman, identified as Fekreyyah Nu’man Ibrahim Alkurdi, handed her passport to Zhu Zhenshan, a border policeman at the Luohu Checkpoint, to have it checked at about 1:59 a.m. Friday. Her nervousness immediately caught the attention of Zhu who found there was something wrong with the stamps on her passport. He then asked her some questions to confirm her identity, but Alkurdi could not provide clear answers.

Suspecting that Alkurdi was attempting to enter China using forged documents, border police sent her to the investigation department for further questioning.

Preliminary investigations found that the picture on her passport had been changed, and two stamps were forged. Alkurdi, however, either refused to answer police officers’ questions on the pretext that she didn’t speak Chinese, or talked about her experience in China.

The passport also showed that she had entered Hong Kong, but there was no record of her exit, which indicated that the woman was holding two passports. The border officers finally found her Jordanian passport hidden in her cane bag.

Alkurdi finally confessed she was from Jordan, and had been deported from China for stealing in Beijing and Guangdong Province’s Qingyuan City. About half a month ago, she purchased a forged Turkish passport, and then attempted to enter China again.