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15 indicted over anti-graft protests

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August 05, 2007|From Times Wire Reports

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.


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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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