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Ministry of Justice
to consider prison privileges for Chen
Staff Writer, with CNA
The Ministry of Justice will examine the issue of whether former president Chen
Shui-bian should enjoy privileges while in prison by studying the examples of
other countries, Vice Minister of Justice Wu Chen-huan (吳陳鐶) said yesterday.
Wu said his ministry requested that the nation’s overseas missions help collect
information on similar cases in nations such as South Korea and Myanmar.
“If necessary, we will resolve the issue through legislation,” he said at a
meeting with a group of Taiwan Solidarity Union lawmakers.
The legislators were calling on the ministry to offer Chen treatment better than
that received by other inmates in light of his status as a former president.
Chen is serving a 17-and-a-half-year term for corruption during his two terms in
office from 2000 to 2008.
The former president was transferred from Taoyuan General Hospital back to
Taipei Prison on Tuesday after spending a week in the hospital for treatment of
acute coronary syndrome.
Chen was taken to the hospital on March 7 after complaining of chest pain and
shortness of breath. He underwent a cardiac catheterization procedure. Doctors
later determined that the insertion of a stent into his coronary arteries was
unnecessary and Chen was treated with medication instead.
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