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Chen’s mother makes plea
By Rich Chang
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, Apr 12, 2010, Page 3
Former first lady Wu Shu-jen, front, and
former president Chen Shui-bian’s mother, Chen Lee Shen, left, attend the
funeral of Chen Shui-bian’s uncle yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
Former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) mother made a plea for her son’s release
yesterday, one day before the Taiwan High Court is expected to decide whether to
continue his detention.
Attending a funeral for the former president’s uncle in Tainan, Chen Lee Shen
(陳李慎) said: “My son did nothing wrong. Why has he been detained so long?”
“As a mother, I feel deeply sad. I cannot eat during the day and cannot sleep at
night,” she said.
Chen Shui-bian has been detained for more than 500 days and his current term of
detention is scheduled to end on April 23.
Teng Chen-chiu (鄧振球), the presiding judge in the case, said during Friday’s
hearing that the court intended to make a decision today.
Teng had said the Chen family would have to remit NT$700 million (US$21 million)
to a designated account if the former president were to have any chance of being
released on bail.
Chen’s son, Chen Chih-chung (陳致中), said of the judge’s remark that he and his
family had done everything they could to have the money from his family’s Swiss
bank accounts remitted to Taiwan and that it was up to the Special Investigation
Panel (SIP) to decide when the transfer would take place.
The Taiwan High Court has announced it will deliver a verdict for the second
trial on June 11.
The Taipei District Court sentenced Chen Shui-bian and his wife Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍)
to life in prison in September after handing down a guilty verdict in the first
trial against the former first couple and 11 others.
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