Taiwan: Unfair trial leads to imminent execution

Index Number: ASA 38/004/2011
Date Published: 31 August 2011
Categories: Taiwan

A Taiwanese man, Chiou Ho-shun, is in imminent danger of execution. He was sentenced to death in 1989 after an unfair trial. On 25 August, the Prosecutor General rejected a request to seek an extraordinary appeal for a retrial.