Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/09
By: Hsiao Po-wen, Wang Yang-yu and William Yen

Taipei, Nov. 9 (CNA) Taiwan’s High Court ruled Thursday that a man wrongly held in

custody for nearly 16 years should receive NT$28.12 million (US$932,072) in compensation, a record for a person not wrongfully executed.

Hsu Tzu-chiang (徐自強) was declared innocent by the High Court last year in the ninth retrial of his case, in which he was accused of playing a role in the 1995 kidnapping and murder of a wealthy businessman.

Hsu was held in custody for 5,808 days from June 24, 1996 to May 18, 2012, according to a statement issued by the High Court. He was also concurrently held in custody for 184 days for an unrelated gambling conviction, in which he was not wrongfully convicted.

So the court ruled Hsu should receive compensation of NT$5,000 for each of the 5,624 days he was wrongly held in custody.    [FULL  STORY]