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Tibetans decry Chinese domination

Taipei Times

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Taiwanese should take the capture of Tibet by China to heart and support the Tibetan people’s pursuit of freedom, Tibetan rights activists said yesterday.

“Buddhists in Taiwan in particular should understand that people of the same faith in Tibet are suffering brutal oppression when they’re currently engaged in so-called religious exchanges with China,” Taiwan Friends of Tibet (TFT) chairperson Chou Mei-li (周美里) said at a symposium.

Ministry lied about A-bian, DPP says

Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday said that the Ministry of Justice had lied about why it had selected the Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) as the medical center where former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has received medical check-ups and treatment.

The lawmakers asked Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫) to provide a report on the matter in a legislative meeting set for tomorrow.

Prosecutors cannot deny their moral obligations

Wu Ching-chin 吳景欽

On July 2, following four years of legal wrangling, two cases in which former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and others were accused of embezzling special allowance funds ended with not-guilty verdicts, and prosecutors decided not to appeal. On Wednesday, Lu petitioned the Control Yuan to investigate whether the prosecutors who brought the case against her had abused their authority.

The conviction rate for corruption cases in Taiwan has for a long time hovered around 60 percent. Even setting aside the question of whether prosecutors treat cases differently according to political affiliations, the low conviction rate is hard to accept.

A-bian transferred to hospital despite family’s objections

Taipei Times

Former president Chen Shui-bian is escorted by police yesterday as he is transferred from Taoyuan General Hospital to Taipei.
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Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was yesterday transferred to Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) from Taoyuan General Hospital for further check-ups and treatments. The transfer to the TVGH was met with objections by Chen’s family, who said the hospital was “politically affiliated” with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

Chen Chih-chung (陳致中), his son, said the family would prefer that the former president be taken to Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei or to a hospital in southern Taiwan.

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