Social groups to tie yellow ribbons for Chen Shui-bian

More than 30 social movements called on the public yesterday to tie yellow ribbons in support of jailed ex-President Chen Shui-bian.
The activity served to underline the need for fair justice in the ex-president's case, organizers said. The movements are calling for the release of Chen, who has been detained as a suspect in cases of corruption and money laundering for more than six months.
On July 12, the activists will tie the ribbons all the way from the Taipei Detention Center in Tucheng, Taipei County, where Chen is being held, to the 228 Memorial Park close to the Presidential Office in downtown Taipei.
Distribution of the ribbons would start earlier, on Monday, when an estimated 1 million ribbons would become available from offices of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party islandwide. The prosecutors in the cases against Chen were moving from locking up people to force concessions, to persecution of the whole family, said DPP lawmaker Lawrence Kao. He was referring to this week's decision by prosecutors to continue a travel ban on the ex-president's daughter Chen Hsing-yu, in effect preventing her from taking advanced dentistry studies in New York. The ex-president wrote a letter to president to ask for leniency in her case because he feared she might commit suicide. Ma replied he could not intervene in judicial cases.
source:Taiwan News, Staff Writer Page 2 2009-07-03 12:10 AM