 Captain Cloma protested but was treated discourteously, interrogated , and kept under detention until allowed to rejoin his boat.The next day he was again invited aboard the Chinese ship.There, even under threat to their lives, Cloma and his officers refused to recognize that Freedomland was Chinese territory and to sign a statement (signed under duress, according to Filemon Cloma's son ) that they would leave Freedomland and never come back.