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Taiwan: Police should avoid using excessive force at upcoming protests

Posted in Taiwan on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT
AI Index No: ASA 38/001/2008
3 December 2008
Taiwan: Police should avoid using excessive force at upcoming protests
Amnesty International has urged Taiwan’s police force to comply with international guidelines on the use of force and crowd control at the planned student protests on Sunday 7 December.
The organization also joins calls for the Control Yuan, the [...]

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China RAN action – October 2008

Posted in Death penalty, Regional Action Network, Taiwan, tagged , , on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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 left at the [...]

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China RAN action – September 2008

Posted in Death penalty, Regional Action Network, Taiwan on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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, but some [...]

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