15 indicted over anti-graft protests
A veteran democracy activist was indicted for organizing large anti-corruption protests against President Chen Shui-bian last year that surrounded his presidential offices, the dissident’s spokesman said.
Shih Ming-teh and 15 others were indicted by the Taipei Public Prosecutors Office, Chang Fu-chung said. Chang said he also was indicted, as were Taipei city government official Emile Sheng and two opposition legislators.
Shih, 66, who spent 25 years in prison during the previous Nationalist administration’s authoritarian rule, defended the protests in an e-mail statement, saying they were always peaceful.
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