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◆ Yahoo, UDN, China Times (Taiwan), 2024-1-10 youtube.com/watch?v=BpiVdPCdhf8 : Taiwan presidential candidate Hou (侯友宜) opposes abolishing death penalty. According to poll by 《ETtoday新聞雲》, only 7.7% of respondents support abolition of death penalty (capital punishment).
◆ DW (Germany), 2022-10-23: German parliamentary human rights committee delegation (Peter Heidt, Heike Engelhardt, Derya Türk-Nachbaur , Michael Brand , Carsten Brodesser ) arrived at Taiwan and discussed human rights issues including the death penalty with their Taiwanese counterparts. Capital punishment is still a statute on the books in Taiwan. dw.com/en/german-lawmakers-arrive-in-taiwan-amid-tensions-with-china/a-63530806 msn.com/en-us/news/world/german-lawmakers-arrive-in-taiwan-amid-tensions-with-china/ar-AA13hMCZ |
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◆ Taipei Times, etc, 2022-9-13: DETERRENT: About 88 percent of respondents said capital punishment helps prevent serious crimes, while nearly 89 percent were dissatisfied with the pace of executions,
86.9 percent of respondents opposed the abolition of capital punishment in Taiwan, 88.8 percent were dissatisfied that the Tsai administration carried out only two executions over the past six years. The poll also showed that 73.6 percent are dissatisfied with public safety in Taiwan, while 25.5 percent are satisfied. taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/09/13/2003785231
◆ justsecurity.org,
Focus Taiwan, Taipei Times, etc, 2022-5-13:
Invited by Taiwan's government, an international human rights
experts panel (Manfred Nowak of Austria, Eibe Riedel, Germany, Heisoo Shin, S
Korea, Rosslyn Noonan, New Zealand, Shanthi Dairiam , Malaysia, Peer
Lorenzen, Denmark, William Anthony Schabas , Canada, Rukka Sombolinggi,
Indonesia, Virginia Bonoan-Dandan, Philippines, Miloon Kothari, India
) conducted a five-day review from May 9-13 in Taipei of the
country's implementation of two United Nations' human rights-related covenants,
namely the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
international panel experts called on Taiwan to end the “cruel and degrading”
practice of capital punishment. The nine-member
group said it was "extremely disappointed" at the failure of Taiwan's government
to address the issue. "Taiwan is already among a
very, very small number of countries in the world that still retain the death
penalty, and the arguments that are time and again, repeated by the government,
are far from convincing," experts
said the "cruel, inhuman and degrading" punishment was in violation of
ICCPR's Article 6 and 7. Taiwan's Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said that
... but there is
a lack of public consensus on the matter.
◆ Japan Times, 2022-1-4 : Taiwan's claim to be a regional bastion of human rights is being undermined by its retention of capital punishment. Capital punishment remains popular in Taiwan. Despite its frequent use against dissidents during decades of martial law, most polls show Taiwanese still support the death penalty even as the island has become one of the most progressive democracies in Asia. Taiwan president Tsai has called abolishing capital punishment "a difficult issue to deal with" due to the lack of support from the public that would require "a long process, a long time" to change. brief
pic. left: No.2 "death penalty in Taiwan" on Yandex, 2024-1-14, 2023-11-27, 2022-10-9, 2022-9-10, 2022-2-13; No.2 "Taiwanese death penalty" on Yandex, 2024-1-14, 2023-11-27, 2022-9-10
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