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Yu-Jie Chen
Yu-Jie Chen
Yu-Jie Chen is a Taiwan lawyer who for the current academic year 2016-2017 is a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She received her J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from New York University School of Law. She also holds an LL.M. and LL.B. from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Her research focuses on criminal justice and human rights developments in Taiwan and China.

Since 2017, at least four Taiwanese have been arbitrarily detained in mainland China and isolated from family and lawyers because of a breakdown in cross-strait relations. International pressure is losing effectiveness as China grows in economic clout.

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Although the death penalty continues to be popular in Taiwan, the government's April 29 execution of two of its citizens, brothers Tu Ming-lang and Tu Ming-hsiung, for allegedly committing five murders in Guangdong in 2001 has understandably aroused public concern.

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