Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Taiwan's Blemished Human Rights & Judicial Past a Precursor of It's Dubious Present

  The ghosts of Taiwan's tarnished and human-rights-deficient judicial past continue to haunt its present.
  One of last year's most significant stories bridging Taiwan's past and present was about the second acquittal of the Hsichih Trio:

'Hsichih Trio' found not guilty again

  Now in this week's news comes more revelations of the Taiwan government's long-running record of legal and human rights abuses, this time that resulted in an innocent man being wrongfully and hastily convicted of the murder of a young girl and executed less than a year later in 1997:


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