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Taiwan: justice delayed in “Hsichih Trio” case

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
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AI Index: ASA 38/005/2010
10 December 2010

While the Supreme Court considers an appeal against the “not guilty verdict” in the cases of Liu Bing-lang, Su Chien-ho and Chuang Lin-hsun, collectively known as the “Hsichih Trio”, Amnesty International urges the Taiwanese authorities to promptly address flaws in this judicial proceeding, including allegations of torture and immediately establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a first step towards its abolition.

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2010年11月23日
ASA 38/2010 (English Version)

台灣:亞洲反死刑網絡(ADPAN)對蘇案的無罪判決表示歡迎

台灣高等法院於11月12日針對「蘇建和、莊林勳、劉秉郎案」(簡稱蘇案)做出無罪宣判,致力於推動廢除死刑的亞洲反死刑網絡(ADPAN)對於的這個判決表示歡迎。

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23 November 2010
ASA 38/2010 (中文聲明請見這裡 )

Taiwan – ADPAN welcomes “not guilty” verdict in “Hsichih Trio” case

ADPAN, the Asia-Pacific network which campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty welcomes the important decision to acquit the “Hsichih Trio”. The Taiwan High Court found Su Chien-ho, Liu Bing-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun not guilty on 12 November.

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Abolition of the Death Penalty - New 'De Facto' Millennium Goal
By IPS Correspondents

MADRID, Oct 7, 2010 (IPS) - Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announced Thursday the creation of an International Commission Against the Death Penalty, whose immediate goal is a global moratorium by 2015, to put an end to what he described as the "horror" of capital punishment.

The 10-member Commission was formally established Thursday in Madrid, ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, commemorated on Oct. 10. It is presided over by former UNESCO director general Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
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Death penalty is danger to all: Meeropol
Children fundation's director talks about personal experience, urges more constructive alternation
By Dennis Engbarth
Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
Page 2, 2010-07-05   

In an exclusive interview, Robert Meeropol, vice-chair of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights and the founder and executive director of the Rosenberg Foundation for Children, discussed with Taiwan News Chief Editorial Writer Dennis Engbarth how his experience as a child whose parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed by the United States government for "conspiracy to commit espionage" at the height of the "anti-communist" Cold War period known as "McCarthyism" led to opposition to the death penalty.
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Victims rights activists urge Taiwan government to reconsider death penalty

By Dennis Engbarth
Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
2010-07-03 03:38 AM     

A group of murder victims from the United States and Japan are holding a series of lectures in Taipei and other cities this weekend to support calls by local activists for a cessation of capital punishment in Taiwan.

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U.S. group of murder victims' families argues against death penalty

Taipei, July 2 (CNA) State execution of convicted murderers does not guarantee peace of mind for the families of the victims, an international non-governmental organization said in Taipei Friday.

"Executing someone helps no one... Killing another human being does not undo that act of violence," said Robert Meeropol, vice-chair of the board of directors of the Murder Victims' Families For Human Rights (MVFHR).

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Executions, threats, an apology and forgiveness
(原中文文章為:謝謝你的對不起~邁向修復式正義

By Lin Hsin-yi 林欣怡
Taipei Times, Sunday, Jun 20, 2010, Page 8

There are many reasons why the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) has moved its office — not only because of the threats it has received.

The media have produced some misleading reports on this. The vast majority of people are capable of calm discussion, even where opinions differ. Everyone has the right to free speech. When it involves physical threats, however, this is no longer a matter of freedom of speech. A small group of extremists should not deny others their right to public debate.

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TAIWAN
ADPAN Regrets Use of the Death Penalty and Appeals for the Lives of those under Sentence of Death

AI Index:  ASA  38/002/2010 (3 June 2010) (中文請見這裡 )


The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN) regrets the decision made on 28 May by the Justices of the Taiwan Constitutional Court (of Judicial Yuan) to reject a petition made on behalf of 44 death row inmates. 

This petition filed by the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) to the Constitutional Court aimed to highlight that the use of the death penalty was unconstitutional and there were flaws in the legal procedure regarding these cases. The petition was expected to provide a chance to open retrials for these cases or to save the 44 prisoners from execution.

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TAIWAN NEWS EDITORIAL    
Taiwan grand justices show deadly cowardice
Taiwan News, Page 6, 2010-06-01 12:00 AM    
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1273403&lang=eng_news&cate_img=46.jpg&cate_rss=news_Editorial

Taiwan's Council of Grand Justices shirked their duty to uphold the fundamental human rights mandated by our laws by refusing to review the constitutionality of issues related to the death sentence Friday.

In their role as Taiwan's Constitutional Court, the 15 grand judges decided not to accept three petitions filed by lawyers of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) on behalf of 40 prisoners on death row only weeks after four persons convicted of murder were executed April 30, breaking Taiwan's five-year tacit moratorium on implementation of capital punishment.
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