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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 [...]

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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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