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Chen Shui-bian deserves parole for health: rally

Monday, 20 October 2014 07:31 Taipei Times

Members of the Taiwan Democratic Human Rights Platform protest on Ketagalan Boulveard in Taipei yesterday over the government’s treatment of former president Chen Shui-bian.
Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times

More than 100 supporters of former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) marched through Taipei yesterday, highlighting their demand that the government uphold his human rights.

The protesters, led by a new activist group called the Taiwan Democratic Human Rights Platform, called for the government to grant Chen medical parole so he could receive treatment at home.

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Groups call on Ma and Jiang to step down

Saturday, 18 October 2014 07:17 Taipei Times

Activists clash with police during a protest in front of the Executive Yuan yesterday. The protesters demanded that President Ma Ying-jeou and Premier Jiang Yi-huah step down.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

Groups protesting what they called high-level governmental officials’ lack of political responsibility toward an adulterated cooking oil scandal yesterday clashed with police in front of the Executive Yuan, while calling for both President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) to step down.

Taiwan Adequate Housing Association president Huang Yi-chung (黃益中) said that the Executive Yuan’s plans to establish a food security office was “a joke” and the nation would be much better off if Jiang resigned from office.

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Newsflash


Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Wu Yu-sheng speaks at a meeting of the legislasture’s Internal Administration Committee in July.
Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

A visit to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama could be considered as the Tibetan religious leader returning to China, because “Taiwan is also the land of China,” Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇) said yesterday.

Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Chih-mai (陳其邁) criticized Wu, saying that he might as well call Taiwanese legislators “members of China’s National People’s Congress.”