Thank you for taking action! We mailed your letters on 11 October 2011.
Chiou Ho-shun is a Taiwanese man who was sentenced to death after an unfair trial and may be executed anytime after the Prosecutor General rejected an extraordinary appeal for retrial. Asia Pacific YOUth need to ask the Taiwanese authorities to not execute Chiou – let’s flood the Taiwanese authorities with letters!
Why should YOU(th) take action?
The death penalty is cruel, inhumane, and violates the right to life
Chiou’s sentence was based on his confession that was extracted under torture which led to an unfair trial! Another reason is that the death penalty is cruel, inhumane, and violates the right to life!
Send a letter to President of Taiwan before 10 October 2011 – ask him to NOT execute Chiou Ho-shun and call for an immediate moratorium on executions with a view to abolish the death penalty. Your letters will be sent in Chinese (see the English translation below) and we will mail it by post with your details as shown below and copies will also be sent to the Taipei Detention Center for Chiou.
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馬英九 總統你好！我要向您提出以下呼籲：
[姓名] 上 (Your letters will be sent in Chinese and this is the English translation) Dear President, I urge you to:
Sincerely, [your full name] |
What’s his story?
In 1988, Chiou Ho-shun and 11 others were detained and tried for the kidnapping and killing of Lu Cheng and for murdering Ko Hung Yu-Lan. They say that during the first four months of their detention, they had no contact with the outsiders and were tortured to make them confess.
What’s really strange is that Chiou was sentenced to death while the others were all sentenced to prison terms!
In 1994, two public prosecutors and 10 police officers who handled the kidnapping and killing of Lu Cheng were convicted for using torture to extract confessions. In 2003, the police even said that another death row inmate had confessed to killing Lu Cheng just before his execution but they chose to cover it up. However, Chiou’s confession, which was extracted under torture, still counts as evidence in the courts and they have not investigated the death row inmate’s confession.
The 11 who were sentenced to prison have already completed their terms (except for one who died in prison) while Chiou’s case has bounced back and forth between the High Court and Supreme Court 11 times.
馬英九 總統你好！我要向您提出以下呼籲：
敬請台灣政府不要執行邱和順的死刑；
台灣政府依據國際公平審判標準重新審邱和順案；
台灣政府必須依據《公民與政治權利國際公約》的施行程序，遭判處死刑之人應有尋求特赦或減刑的權利；
台灣政府應依據2007年12月18日聯合國大會第62/149號決議文，以及2008年、2010年的相關決議文，立即停止執行死刑，朝向廢除死刑的目標邁進。
sorry,我以為是用回復連署，請幫我移除，謝謝
沒關係！謝謝你的支持！