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Medical and legal professions called to protect Chen Shui-bian’s rights

Michael Richardson

Chen Shui-bian in happier days visiting the United States

The recent pre-dawn transfer of ailing Chen Shui-bian from a locked psychiatric unit at Veteran’s Hospital in Taipei to Taichung Prison against the medical advice of all of Chen’s doctors has led to calls on April 23 for the Taiwanese medical community and international legal community to denounce the conditions of Chen’s imprisonment. The forced move caused the depressed Chen to attempt suicide by hanging from a doorknob with a shirt around his neck.

The rape of Taiwan

Taipei Times Editorial

At the drop of a word by a pugnacious superintendent, the young protesters were suddenly handcuffed and brusquely forced to the ground by police officers before being dragged away, some screaming in pain, others at the brutality with which their peaceful sit-in had been broken up.

The dozens of activists, many of them veterans of other campaigns in recent months, were in Yuanli Township (苑裡), Miaoli County, to support local residents who oppose a controversial wind turbine construction project that has been forced upon them by an intransigent county government.

Lu warns on ‘silent annexation’ by China

Taipei Times

Former vice president Annette Lu speaks at the founding ceremony of the Anti-One China Principle Union in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) yesterday described China’s political maneuvers and increasing economic ties with Taiwan as a “silent annexation” and warned of the gradual erosion of Taiwan’s sovereignty.

“The silent annexation is ongoing. The Democratic Progressive Party’s [DPP] loss of power might be tolerable, but the loss of sovereignty in our time would be an irreversible mistake that would jeopardize future generations,” Lu said in a speech during the founding ceremony of the Anti-One China Principle Union.

Congressman Steve Chabot to visit Chen Shui-bian at Taichung Prison

Michael Richardson

Representative Steve Chabot will visit Chen Shui-bian at Taichung Prison

On April 26, Representative Steve Chabot [R-OH] announced his intention to visit Chen Shui-bian at Taichung Prison. The Cincinnati congressman is a founder of the Taiwan Caucus and has followed Chen’s case closely. Representative Chabot is chairman of a House subcommittee on Asia and is making a fact-finding tour of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan next week.

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