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China Regional Action Network - October 2008 Taiwan: Liu Bing-lang, Su Chien-ho and Chuang Lin-hsun, death penalty Summary On the night of March 23-24,1991 Yeh In-lan and her husband Wu Ming-han were stabbed to death at their home in the town of Hsichih in Taiwan. Five months later, on August 13, 1991, police traced a fingerprint [...]

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China Regional Action Network – September 2008 Taiwan: Moratorium on the Death penalty Summary: No executions have been carried out in Taiwan for the last two-and-a-half years (the last execution took place on 12/26/2005) but five people were sentenced to death in 2007 joining around 70-100 prisoners on death row. Most are still under appeal, [...]

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China Regional Action Network – August 2008 Global Online Freedom Act Concerns: Freedom of expression, imprisonment of prisoners of conscience Summary: In many countries, the Internet has given people unprecedented opportunities to communicate with each other and to learn about the outside world. But repressive governments are making Internet and technology companies allies in their [...]

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China Regional Action Network – July 2008 China: Chen Guangcheng (m) Concerns: Prisoner of Conscience, freedom of expression, torture and ill-treatment Summary: Chen Guangcheng was put under house arrest in September 2005. The blind human rights activist and legal advisor, was assisting villagers in Linyi, Shandong Province, in a lawsuit against local authorities. The authorities [...]

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China Regional Action Network – June 2008 China: Tiananmen Mothers Concerns: Freedom of expression, association and assembly Summary: The Tiananmen Mothers, founded by Ding Zilin, a retired university professor, is a group of around 130 human rights defenders – mainly women – whose children and other close relatives were killed or injured during the military [...]

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