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Legislator Mark Chen describes the poor health and suffering of Chen Shui-bain

Michael Richardson

Mark Chen and Chen Shui-bian's medical team

Taiwan Political Prisoner Report, January 15, 2013. Legislator Chen Tat-sun, also known as Mark Chen, has taken a leading role in speaking out in defense of Chen Shui-bian, the imprisoned former president of the Republic of China in-exile. Mark Chen says that Chen Shui-bian has been mistreated in prison.

“Chen Shui-bian has been in prison more than four years. In the first three-and-a-half years we asked the officials in the detention camp to give him a desk, or give him a table, of give him a bed,” said Legislator Chen. “ But nothing happened. When he tries to write something he has to lay flat on the floor. This has hurt Chen Shui-bian’s health. Sometimes he has stomach problems, too much acid in the stomach, and laying down is not good for your health.”

A-bian has mental breakdown: doctor

Taipei Times

Hospitalized former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has suffered a nervous breakdown and should be removed from his current environment, which lacks the support mechanisms that patients with mental illnesses need to recover, a psychiatrist on Chen’s medical team said yesterday.

“The most ideal environment for Chen to make a full recovery would be his home, not the Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH), where he is currently staying to receive treatment … and definitely not Taipei Prison,” Mackay Memorial Hospital psychiatrist Chen Chiao-chi (陳喬琪) told the Taipei Times.

Legislator Mark Chen says China is behind the prosecution of Chen Shui-bian (Photos)

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Legislator Mark Chen worries about Chen Shui-bian's health

Taiwan Political Prisoner Report, January 14, 2013. Chen Tan-sun, also known as Mark Chen, agreed to talk about Chen Shui-bian’s case. We met in the cafeteria of the legislative office building where Mark Chen’s office is located.

Mark Chen was blunt about what has happened and who is responsible: “China is the major factor behind what Ma is doing. Ma obviously listens to China and so China, under Hu Jintao, was putting the line, even directions, to Ma Ying-jeou. Because, if you study the Chinese history, the so-called Kuomintang, which is Ma Ying-jeou’s party, and the Communist Party, they were brothers way back in China.”

China tells army to prepare for war in 2013

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DHARAMSHALA, January 15: In new military directives issued by the Chinese government for the year 2013, the largest army in the world has been told to prepare for war and bolster its ability to win a battle based on rigorous training on an actual combat basis.

The directive was made public in a military newspaper, People's Liberation Army Daily, which referred to a training blueprint issued by the PLA's Department of the General Staff for the entire force. The directive comes amid heightened tensions between China and Japan over territorial disputes in the East China Sea.

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