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.
Chiou Ho-shun was detained in 1988 and tried in connection with two separate crimes: the kidnapping and killing of Lu Cheng and the murder of Ko Hung Yu-Lan. Only Chiou Hu-shun was sentenced to death; his 11 co-defendants were sentenced to prison terms, which they have all completed, apart from one who died in prison.
Chiou Ho-shun and his co-defendants say that they were held incommunicado for the first four months of their detention and they were tortured to make them confess. They later retracted their confessions.
The"Fair and Speedy Criminal Trials Act"is killing Chiou Ho-shun!
Statement Released by Judicial Reform Foundation, July 28, 2011
With regards to the Supreme Court's rejection, on June 28 2011, of the appeals of Chiou Ho-shun(邱和順), Lin Kun-ming(林坤明) and Wu Shu-zhen (吳淑貞), and the decision to sentence Chiou Ho-shun to death, the Judicial Reform Foundation issues the following statement:
