TAIPEI —

Taiwan’s former President Chen Shui-bian has gone on a hunger strike to protest his jailing, his lawyer said Thursday, while legal woes mounted for family members also implicated in the corruption scandal.

Lawyer Cheng Wen-lung said Chen has refused food since entering his cell to protest “the death of the law and to mourn the decline of democracy” under the “authoritarian regime” of the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT).

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  rickyso at 04:35 PM JST - 14th November

  maybe its good for taiwan for thief like him to be gone, well, to have his free and independence in the bottom part of heaven.

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  yosun at 11:20 PM JST - 14th November

  This guy really hurt all Taiwanese feeling! and hunger strike can't let him become a political prisoner from an embezzler. anyway, maybe he need that 10 billion US$ in his accounts all over the world to support Taiwan Independence activity......@#$+*///

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  yosun at 11:25 PM JST - 14th November

  Sorry, he ONLY stole 1 billion US$, not 10 billion~~~

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