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Former US
representative visits Chen
By Chris Wang / Staff reporter
Former US representative Tom Tancredo visited former president Chen Shui-bian
(³¯¤ô«ó) in hospital yesterday and expressed his concerns about Chen¡¦s health.
A former representative from Colorado, Tancredo, 66, arrived in Taipei late on
Thursday and visited Chen at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, accompanied
by former Democratic Progressive party (DPP) legislator Chai Trong-rong (½²¦Pºa).
Tancredo later visited the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for details of Chen¡¦s medical treatment, as well as the conditions of
his incarceration.
Tancredo is scheduled to attend an evening concert ¡X organized by several
pro-localization organizations ¡X at the 228 Peace Memorial Park in Taipei
tomorrow as part of an event designed to show support for Chen, who is serving
an 18-and-a-half-year sentence for corruption, and to protest what they call
¡§the ordeal of Chen¡¦s wrongful incarceration¡¨ on the fourth anniversary of his
imprisonment.
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