Taiwan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- semi-presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 25, 1947, amended several times, last in 2005
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- is based on civil law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Legislative Yuan
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Judicial Yuan, with judges appointed by the President for nine years with the consent of the National Assembly
RELIGIONS
Confucian and Buddhist majorities; Protestant and Catholic minorities
From the country
- JANUARY 14, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International issued a statement welcoming...
Amnesty International issued a statement welcoming the release of the "Hsichih Trio": Su Chien-ho, Liu Bing-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun, death row inmates who were acquitted by the Taiwan High Court of all charges brought against them for the murder of a cou
- JANUARY 14, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
A lawyer representing the family of the victims of...
A lawyer representing the family of the victims of the 1991 Hsichih double murder said he would ask the prosecutor to appeal against the Taiwan High Court's acquittal of the Hsichih Trio
- JANUARY 13, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan's most famous death row convicts emerged blinking...
Taiwan's most famous death row convicts emerged blinking into freedom and a media scrum after the island's High Court declared them not guilty of a vicious double murder more than a decade ago
- JANUARY 13, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for...
Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for more than a decade in a brutal robbery-murder case that had put the island's human rights record in the spotlight