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Weeks before the start of a sedition trial of seven political opponents of Taiwan's one-party regime, human rights activists predicted that the hearing would be a travesty of justice. Leading U.S. law professors, scholars and writers fired off protests and pleas for leniency to Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark denounced the "brutal use of martial...
...when proceedings began last week, it turned out to be the most open and, thus far, the fairest trial before a military court to take place in Taiwan's judicial history. Overriding conservative opposition in his government, President Chiang took the unusual step of opening the trial to the press, to the defendants' families and to two representatives of Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization. Also present were two observers from the American Institute in Taiwan, the organization that has unofficially represented the U.S. on the island since Washington recognized Peking as the legitimate government...
...reason for this tough attitude is that most of the crime is apparently being committed by youths. The Chinese press routinely blames the pernicious influence of Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and her deposed Gang of Four. In fact, one principal cause is unemployment, particularly among millions of middle-school graduates who turn to street crime or black-marketeering to get some sorely needed cash...
...copy the authorities evidently felt that they could not risk having it circulate throughout China. Wei, who had conducted his own defense at his trial, charged that China had scarcely changed since the ouster of the Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing). A former Red Guard who has become an impassioned proponent of democracy, Wei ridiculed the accusation of counterrevolutionary activity leveled against him and other dissidents: "It is revolutionary to act in accordance with the will of the people in power and counterrevolutionary to oppose the will of the people...
...capital. A poster signed by Qiu Shui, a writer for the radical underground journal Tansuo (Exploration), appeared on Peking's "Democracy Wall," denouncing Hua for "interference" with China's judicial procedures. The poster attacked Hua's statement that Mao Tse-tung's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and the other members of the Gang of Four would not be sentenced to death when they go on trial, possibly next year. Wrote Qiu: "The sentencing of the Gang of Four should be based on the court's decision alone...