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Chen Shui-bian to leave prison for hospital visit: MOJ

Former first lady Wu Shu-jen on Thursday urged judicial authorities to grant former president Chen Shui-bian a release from prison for medical treatment after visiting Chen at Taipei Prison.
Photo: Taipei Times

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) last night announced that former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) would be able to leave Taipei Prison for medical treatment as soon as a hospital visit could be arranged.

The announcement came as Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫) defended the prison’s handling of Chen health earlier in the day and a day after former first lady Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍) asked the prison to send her husband to a hospital not affiliated with the prison for a checkup

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Former first lady urges medical release for Chen

On behalf of her husband, former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), former first lady Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍) yesterday urged judicial authorities to grant Chen a release from prison for medical treatment.

Wu, who is subject to house arrest during her 17-and-a-half-year prison sentence because of bad health, said she did not rule out organizing a protest against President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) if the release were not granted.

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Newsflash

The government yesterday called off a plan to send a delegation made up of members of the Executive Yuan to Washington to contain the fallout from the legislature’s move to bar imports of certain US beef products.

Instead, a delegation mainly made up of lawmakers and representatives from non-governmental organizations would head to the US on a fact-finding trip, Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) said at a press conference yesterday.