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Chen attempted suicide: source

Wednesday, 18 July 2012 08:26 Taipei Times

Former President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) has developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, and has attempted suicide at least three times as a result of his incarceration, a Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker yesterday cited a medical assessment report as saying.

Chen is currently serving a 17-and-a-half-year term at Taipei Prison on corruption charges.

Chen Shui-bian now working on his seventh book

Tuesday, 17 July 2012 08:33 Taipei Times

Former president Chen Shui-bian steps out of a prison van as he is taken to attend a session at the Taiwan High Court on June 29.
Photo courtesy of Taipei Press Photographers’ Association

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said yesterday that he was working on his seventh book in jail and that he expected the One Side, One Country Alliance (一邊一國連線) he established to make great strides in municipal elections in 2014.

Chen, who has been in prison since he was convicted of corruption in December 2008, said he “would definitely go out of prison alive and keep working toward his goal of one country on each side” in a press release issued by his office yesterday.

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Protesters against the government's plan to sign an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China are planning to take their opposition to the streets on June 6.

Michelle Wang (王美琇), an official with the Taiwan Rescue Action Alliance and one of the organizers of the planned demonstration, said yesterday that they wanted the international community to know that not all Taiwanese support the trade pact and that “the people are fed up” with the government's continued push to sign it.