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Campaign Against Prison Slavery
www.againstprisonslavery.org
The Campaign Against Prison Slavery (CAPS) was formed in 2002 by ex-prisoners, prisoner support groups and activists to campaign against compulsory labour in UK prisons and for the abolition of the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme (IEP).

Activists Legal Project
www.activistslegalproject.org.uk
The Activists’ Legal Project is a not for profit collective which provides information about the law to a wide range of grassroots social change activists as well as people who are considering taking action for the first time. They provide information sheets on legal issues relevant to direct activists and offer free legal workshops facilitated by activists, with first hand experience of the criminal and civil ‘justice’ systems.

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all credits: BBC News
originally published: 12th March 2010

Taiwan’s justice minister has resigned after failing to win support for her opposition to the death penalty.

Wang Ching-feng had said she would not give the go-ahead for any executions. She added she would gladly die instead of any of the 44 inmates on death row, if only they got a chance to rehabilitate themselves.

Ms Wang’s comments were criticised by President Ma Ying-jeou, by her own Kuomintang party and by victims of violent crime. An opinion poll compiled after her remarks suggested three-quarters of the Taiwanese public supported capital punishment.

Taiwan has practised a four-year de facto moratorium on executions. But efforts to convert that into a formal end to any capital punishment were too challenging, as the justice minister discovered.

“I would rather step down than sign any death warrant,” she said. “If these convicts can have an opportunity to rehabilitate themselves, I would be very happy to be executed or even go to hell in their stead.”

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