Death Watch

2009年5月21日早上10:00於台大校友會館，由台灣人權促進會、民間司法改革基金會、蠻野心足生態協會和廢除死刑推動聯盟四個團體共同召開「不容司法怠惰 拒絕虛假正義～邱和順案(註)民間社團聲援行動 」記者會。邱和順及林坤明的家屬也到現場關切。

記者會是由行動劇拉開序幕。以邱和順案警方刑求的錄音帶內容作為聲音背景，一位志工扮演被告被捆綁在台上，用毛巾矇住口鼻，被另外兩位扮演刑求的警察則強灌被告辣椒水。主持人台權會秘書長蔡季勳表示，場面是虛擬的，但故事是真實的，從錄音帶中真實的聽見，過往警察的「辦案技巧」竟是如此。

Say NO to Judicial Indolence and Sham Justice
A Press Conference by NGOs Supporting Defendants Chiou Ho-shun et al.

Joint Press Release by the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Judicial Reform Foundation, Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association, and Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty 【21 May 2009】

Chiou Ho-shun and his co-defendants were indicted 22 years ago in the case of the murder of Ms. Ko Hung Yu-lan and the kidnapping of schoolboy Lu Cheng (two cases joined as a single case by the prosecutors in the indictment). The judiciary still has not handed down a final and conclusive judgment in this case, making it the longest-running undecided case with defendants in detention in Taiwan's judicial history. The defendants Chiou Ho-shun and Lin Kun-ming have been in detention for over 21 years. The other original defendants have successively waived their rights of appeal, having chosen to serve out sentences rather than suffer continued protracted litigation and the risk of remaining deprived of their liberty, but they have continued to state their innocence. Proven criminal conduct by the police and abuses of authority by prosecutors during the investigation and prosecution of this case, and ingrained indolence on the parts of the judges who have heard the case on repeated appeals over the years, make this case a vivid example of issues underlying Taiwan's failure to make real strides in reforms toward protecting human rights in criminal judicial procedure.

Say NO to Judicial Indolence and Sham Justice
A Press Conference by NGOs Supporting Chiou Ho-shun

Time: 21 May (Thursday) 10 a.m.
Place: National Taiwan University Alumni Club (Conference Room 3C, 2-1, Chi-Nan Rd., Sec. 1, Taipei)
 
The kidnapping and presumed murder of Hsinchu schoolboy Lu Cheng in 1987 aroused great public concern. Twelve suspects arrested in the case were indicted by the public prosecutor's office solely on the basis of mutually contradictory "confessions" made during police interrogation. It has been proven that these confessions were extracted by torture. The case has been under trial for 22 years, bouncing back and forth between the High Court and the Supreme Court in a drawn-out cycle of appeals, vacated judgments, and remands, becoming the longest-running undecided case with defendants in detention in Taiwan's judicial history.

TVBS╱周欣怡 2009-05-15

9年9月，正值雙十年華的張雅玲，遭求愛不成的兇嫌王鴻偉，先是開車衝撞昏迷被塞進後車廂，再被瘋狂砍殺176刀，流血過多致死。

案子經歷9年纏訟，一審王鴻偉判處無期徒刑，更6審7度判死刑卻又發回，終於最高法院駁回上訴，判處王鴻偉死刑定讞。 張雅玲的姊姊聽到消息，終於放下心中大石。