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Andrea Chen

Jailed former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is expected to be released for medical treatment today after serving more than four years of a 20-year sentence for corruption.
A team under the Ministry of Justice's Agency of Corrections, which is in charge of the island's prisons and detention centres, will review an assessment made earlier by a hospital team.
The agency told the Central News Agency that a decision would be made by noon.
Supporters had hoped Chen would be released on December 31, when the hospital team unanimously recommended that he be granted medical parole because they believed his health problems could not be properly treated in prison, according to local media reports.
"These fours days are as long as four years [to our family]," his son Chen Chih-chung wrote on Facebook, adding that the family had been taking turns to visit the senior Chen.
The 64-year-old former president is reported to be suffering from depression, sleep apnea, deterioration of mental functions and a heart complaint.
The hospital team sent its report to ministry on December 31, but the delivery was delayed by traffic and it was received only a few minutes before the close of business.
The ministry denied interfering in the approval process and said it treated all cases fairly.
Calls for Chen's medical parole have grown since the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, which he helped found, beat the ruling Kuomintang in local elections in November.
His ally Annette Lu Hsiu-lien staged a three-day hunger strike ahead of the New Year to push for his release. DPP spokesman Chen Chi-mai was quoted by the China Times as saying earlier that the former president had no plans to engage in politics. He began serving his sentence in November 2010,
Chen supporter Chou Chung-teh, who is also head of 908 Taiwan Republic Campaign which advocates independence for the island, has called on other backers to wait overnight at Taichung Prison, where Chen is being held, to greet him when he is released.


Jailed Taiwanese ex-president Chen Shui-bian expected to be released on medical parole Monday

Chen Shui-bian has served four years of a 20-year jail term.

Taiwan’s jailed ex-president Chen Shui-bian may soon be freed on medical parole: media reports

Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian may be released from prison on medical parole as soon as on Wednesday, media reports say. Photo: EPA

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Taiwan's justice ministry to decide by noon on medical parole for ailing Chen Shui-bian


Jailed former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is expected to be released for medical treatment after serving more than four years of a 20-year sentence for corruption.


Jailed Taiwanese ex-president Chen Shui-bian expected to be released on medical parole Monday

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Taiwan's justice ministry to decide by noon on medical parole for ailing Chen Shui-bian