A shameful setback: Taiwan’s first execution since 2020

Taiwanese authorities recently executed Huang Linkai, their first execution since 2020.

Amnesty International recently responded this execution saying that it is a shocking and cruel development, in which it has undone progress towards the abolition of the death penalty and is a huge setback for human rights in Taiwan.

E-Ling Chiu, the Director of Amnesty International Taiwan said that:

the execution was carried out in violation of constitutional and international safeguards on the use of the death penalty, and while an appeal filed by his lawyer to stop the execution was still pending before the courts. This renders his execution unlawful and arbitrary, in violation of the right to life.

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