The Justice Ministry has denied a request by the lawyer of Liu Huan-jong, sentenced to death for murder in 1992, to present a new special appeal. AI fears that ...
The China Post of 20 October 1992 reported that the legislature of Taiwan had passed an amendment to the law regulating executions to permit execution by the injection ...
This paper updates AI's concerns about the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners for use in organ transplants and the possible role of members of the medical ...
AI has for some time been concerned about the removal of organs from prisoners executed in Taiwan for use in transplants. The first such case occurred in December ...
On 2 March 1991 a cabinet committee announced that Article 100 of the Criminal Code, which provides for imprisonment of people convicted of anti- state activities ...
Amnesty International is concerned by the continued use of executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplantation in Taiwan. Legislation was introduced in ...
This paper contains seven appeal cases for writers and journalists who have been threatened, imprisoned or even killed because of their professional activities. ...
Executions remain at a high level in Taiwan: in 1990 a record 78 people were executed, compared to 69 in 1989. The Government of Taiwan justifies the retention ...