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Revision as of 06:12, 13 February 2015
The Kaohsiung Prison riot occurred at Kaosiung Prison, Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2015. Six inmates, whose ringleader was a triad member, seized weapons and took the chief warden hostage for a 14-hour stand-off and eventually shot themselves to death. The inmates protested that the former President of Taiwan Chen Shui-bian, who jailed for 20 years for money laundering, was given medical parole while many other prisoners suffered much severe illnesses were denied. [1][2][3][4]
Popular culture
Taiwanese media compared[5]this riot to the 1988 Seoul prison jailbreak which Ji Kang Hun (Korean:지강헌, Hanja:池康憲) protested that the brother of the Korean president Chun Kyung-hwan got away with his 7-year sentence after being convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion. At the end Ji committed suicide.[6] The Korean movie 홀리데이(Holiday) starring Lee Sung-jae was based on this incident.
Reference
- ^ Taiwan prison siege ends in suicides of hostage-takers, 12 February 2015, BBC News.
- ^ Taiwan: Inmates Commit Suicide After Failed Prison Breakout,Feb 12, 2015, ABC News.
- ^ Inmates free hostages, shoot themselves dead after Taiwan prison siege, February 13, 2015, CNN.
- ^ Inmates take jail staff hostage in Taiwan, 12 February 2015, Sky News Australia.
- ^ 高雄監獄挾持案 3大巧合似韓片《逃獄風雲》,Feb 12, 2015, China Times.
- ^ Chun Brother Convicted in South Korea : He Gets 7 Years for Fraud, Embezzlement, September 06, 1988, LA Times.