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ROC drugging of Chen Shui-bian creates problem for Obama administration

Chen Shui-bian wants to know why he was drugged by his ROC
jailors
Chen Shui-bian wants to know why he was drugged by his ROC jailors
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The recent revelation that former President of the Republic of China in-exile Chen Shui-bian was administered a psychiatric drug without his knowledge by prison doctors creates a headache for Barack Obama.  Chen returned to prison Tuesday from a week-long hospitalization for a heart condition where the drugging was discovered.

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The ‘crimes’ of Nixon pale against those of Ma

The use of the TaiMed Biologics Inc case in the lead-up to the Jan. 14 presidential and legislative elections by President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) inner circle has been called Ma’s Watergate. However, it is much more serious than that.

Ma pretended that he was innocent prior to the election, but the appointment of Christina Liu (劉憶如) as minister of finance and Lin Yih-shih (林益世) as Cabinet secretary-general was a blatant attempt to interfere in the judicial process as it relates to the TaiMed case.

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Chen Shui-bian returns to prison after stay in hospital

Security officers drag away a man who was lying in the road and obstructing a van taking former president Chen Shui-bian from Taoyuan General Hospital back to Taipei Prison yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was yesterday returned to Taipei Prison after receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Taoyuan County.

Chen, who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year sentence for corruption, was granted a temporary release from Taipei Prison on March 6 for a medical checkup at Taoyuan General Hospital. Chen was found to be suffering from acute coronary syndrome and underwent a cardiac catheterization on Thursday.

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Rights group questions jail conditions for Chen

The US-based Formosan Association for Human Rights (FAHR) in a letter on Saturday condemned the “inhuman imprisonment conditions” faced by former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and called on the Presidential Office and Ministry of Justice to “set aside political motives” and grant Chen the hospital stay he needs to return to full health.

Chen, who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year prison sentence for corruption, was granted a temporary release from Taipei Prison on Tuesday for a medical checkup at Taoyuan General Hospital because of heath concerns. A series of tests revealed that he was suffering from an acute coronary syndrome and significantly reduced blood flow to the heart, a potentially fatal condition, the letter said.

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Newsflash

A Taiwanese delegation was forced to withdraw from the third Jakarta International Defense Dialogue (JIDD) without being given an explanation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs deputy spokesman Calvin Ho (何震寰) said yesterday.

Ho said that the ministry has already instructed the Taipei Economic and Trade Office in Jakarta to demand an explanation from the Indonesian government, which was hosting the conference, soon after the four-member delegation was informed that it could not attend the summit.