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The execution of an inmate on Thursday by Taiwan, marking the first death penalty carried out by the island’s authorities in five years, has sparked condemnation from rights groups.. Death row ...
Taiwan's Justice Ministry said in a statement that Huang Lin-kai had been executed at the Taipei Detention Centre, having been sentenced to death in 2017 for the 2013 murder of his ex-girlfriend ...
A sign at Taoyuan Airport warning that drug trafficking is punishable by death. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Taiwan.The list of capital offences, for which the death penalty can be imposed includes murder, treason, drug trafficking, piracy, terrorism, and especially serious cases of robbery, rape, and kidnapping, as well as military offences, such as desertion during war time.
By the end of March, Chen Yi had ordered the imprisonment or execution of the leading Taiwanese organizers he could identify. His troops reportedly executed, according to a Taiwanese delegation in Nanjing, maybe between 3,000 to 4,000 people throughout the island, though the exact number is still undetermined. [28]
According to a recent [when?] report by the Executive Yuan of Taiwan, around 140,000 Taiwanese were arrested, tortured, imprisoned or executed for their real or perceived opposition to the KMT and 3000–4000 people were executed during the martial law period. Since these people were mainly from the intellectual and social elite an entire ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's government raised its travel warning for China on Thursday, telling its citizens not to go unless absolutely necessary, following a threat from Beijing last week to ...
1963: Chen Chih-hsiung: Former ambassador of the Republic of Taiwan Provisional Government with Swiss citizenship being kidnapped by KMT agents from Tokyo in 1959, Japan, Chen was the first executed Taiwanese independentist with an axe cutting his feet off to pull his hands up through the path to the execution field.
Lamey Island Massacre: April–May 1636 Liuqiu Island: 300 By Dutch soldiers Guo Huaiyi rebellion: 1652-09-07 & 1652-09-11 Tainan: 4.000+ by Dutch soldiers Nerbudda incident: 1842-08-10 Tainan city 197 by Qing Dynasty: Mudan incident: 1871-12-18 Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian Province: 54 by Paiwan Formosans: Beipu uprising: 1907-11-14 Beipu village ...