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Hunger strike to protest A-bian’s jail term started


Jailed former president Chen Shui-bian’s son, Chen Chih-chung, right, and other supporters sit with former vice president Annette Lu, center, in Taipei yesterday as she launches a hunger strike to demand medical parole for Chen Shui-bian.
Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) began a hunger strike yesterday afternoon in support of the release of former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), who has been in prison since 2008 and suffers from multiple mental and physical disorders.

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Chen to be reassessed, Lu to start hunger strike


Former vice president Annette Lu, right, talks with new Democratic Progressive Party Greater Kaohsiung Council Speaker Kang Yu-cheng yesterday.
Photo: CNA

The medical team formed to assess jailed former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) health scheduled a third round of re-evaluation of Chen’s condition for Monday after visiting Chen yesterday without concluding a report for the Ministry of Justice’s Agency of Correction.

Chen, on charges of corruption, has been imprisoned since late 2008 and his health is steadily worsening.

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Newsflash

Morrison Lee (李孟居), who was imprisoned in China for 22 months on spying charges, arrived in Taiwan yesterday.

Lee knelt to kiss the ground twice upon his arrival at Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport), saying that he was overcome with joy to return after 1,475 days.

“This is the land of freedom,” he said. “I will never go to China again.”