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Su and Tsai visit A-bian, call for medical parole

Friday, 14 September 2012 08:41 Taipei Times

Supporters of former president Chen Shui-bian protest his innocence yesterday outside Taoyuan General Hospital In Taoyuan County where he is being treated for dysuria.
Photo: CNA

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and former DPP chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday visited former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) at a hospital in Taoyuan County and called for Chen’s release for medical treatment.

Chen, who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year sentence in Taipei Prison for corruption, was sent to Taoyuan General Hospital on Wednesday night after complaining of dysuria, or pain when urinating.

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TYC meets UN Officials as hunger strikers’ health deteriorate

Friday, 14 September 2012 08:35 Phayul.com
Tibetan activists carrying out a prostration campaign to the UN Information Office in New Delhi on September 12, 2012. (Photo/TYC)
Tibetan activists carrying out a prostration campaign to the UN Information Office in New Delhi on September 12, 2012. (Photo/TYC)

DHARAMSHALA, September 13: On the 10th day of the Tibetan Youth Congress led indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi, activists yesterday led a prostration campaign to the United Nations office, appealing for their immediate intervention to end the crisis in Tibet.

The campaign brought along memorandums addressed to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.

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Newsflash

Taiwan should prepare for the “possibility of a very difficult period ahead for US policy in the cross-strait area,” a Washington symposium heard on Tuesday.

Steven Goldstein, director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University, said he was “quite pessimistic” about the future.