среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Taiwan's Chen extends hunger strike into 7th day

Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian resumed a hunger strike Tuesday to protest his arrest in a corruption case, after accepting glucose and saline injections to stabilize his deteriorating condition, a doctor said.

Also Tuesday, a group of Chen supporters announced a mass protest against his jailing on corruption charges.

Chen, 57, has refused solid food since early Wednesday of last week, after a three-judge panel ordered him locked up, while prosecutors pursue bribery and other graft allegations against him.

Chen was moved from a suburban Taipei jail late Sunday to a nearby hospital, after doctors observed that he was suffering from an …

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