2013-03-12
亞洲自由聯盟(CALD)發表決議文呼籲給予陳前總統保外就醫
對於前總統陳水扁身體健康狀況不佳，民主進步黨再三呼籲馬政府給予保外就醫。今年3月初亞洲自由民主聯盟(CALD)於新加坡召開會議討論基本自由之挑戰，經民進黨與會代表提出陳前總統人權問題，現場獲得會員友黨高度重視與廣泛討論，近來更一致通過決議文，呼籲馬政府給予陳前總統保外就醫，以促進台灣的政治和解與民主成熟。亞洲自由民主聯盟(CALD)決議文中文譯稿如下：
亞洲自由民主聯盟(Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats, CALD)決議要求給予台灣前總統、CALD前主席陳水扁保外就醫。
CALD於基本自由之挑戰會議通過聲明，重申對於基本自由與權利的恆久承諾。
遺憾的是，在台灣前總統、CALD前主席陳水扁的案件中，反對不人道懲罰及維護充分醫療照顧的權利並未被遵行，陳前總統服刑至今超過四年來一直處於不合標準與不人道的情況。
我們了解到陳前總統健康狀況不佳，且醫療專業人員證實其罹患嚴重的憂鬱症。
政府聲稱其根據法律提供陳前總統最好生活條件及醫療照顧，感慨的是，曾訪視陳前總統的外國官員及醫療專業人員並不支持這說法。另要強調，呼籲保外就醫的聲浪日益升高，全台灣有17個縣市議會通過決議支持保外就醫，即足以為證。
特此，我們敦促馬英九政府超越黨派利益且立即給予陳前總統保外就醫。
我們也支持美國醫療團隊領隊醫師Joseph Lin在2012年11 月檢查陳前總統狀況後所做出的結論，其指出，陳前總統一直處於嚴重的司法與人權誤判。
同時支持國際團體的人權專家在2013年3月所做出的呼籲，基於人道角度，台灣政府應該針對陳前總統嚴重的健康問題採取適當措施。
我們相信給予陳前總統保外就醫將為台灣邁向真正的政治和解與成熟的民主鋪平大道。
亞洲自由民主聯盟(CALD)創立於1993年，由台灣、泰國、南韓、柬埔寨、馬來西亞、菲律賓等6個亞洲國家的民主政黨，為實現「為促進亞洲自由、民主理念之發展」之理念共同成立。CALD十多年來致力於促進亞洲民主、人權之發展。CALD成員現今遍及東北亞、東南亞、南亞等主要國家，為亞洲唯一一個自由政黨所組成之國際聯盟，包括正式會員、觀察員、個人會員及榮譽會員翁山蘇姬女士，來自台灣、蒙古、菲律賓、柬埔寨、緬甸、馬來西亞、印尼、巴基斯坦、斯里蘭卡、新加坡、香港、日本，共16個會員。
亞洲自由民主聯盟決議文(CALD)原文如下：
CALD Resolution No. 1 S. 2013
CALD resolution calling for the grant of medical parole to Former Taiwanese President and Former CALD Chair Chen Shui-bian.
The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD):
Noting the statement passed in the recently concluded CALD Conference on Challenges to Fundamental Freedoms which reiterates CALD’s enduring commitment to fundamental rights and liberties;
Regretting that the right against inhuman punishment and the right to adequate healthcare are not being observed in the case of former Taiwanese President and former CALD Chair Chen Shui-bian, who has been serving a prison term for more than four years now under “substandard and inhumane” conditions;
Recognizing that the former president is in poor health and is suffering from severe depression as attested by medical professionals;
Lamenting the fact that the government’s claim of providing the former president with the best living conditions and healthcare under the law was not supported by foreign officials and medical professionals who visited him; and
Highlighting the increasing popular clamor for the grant of medical parole as evidenced by the passage of resolutions supporting the move in seventeen (17) city and county councils in Taiwan.
Hereby:
Urges the government of President Ma Ying-jeou to go beyond partisan interests and immediately grant former President Chen a medical parole;
Supports the conclusion made by Joseph Lin in November 2012, leader of the US medical team which examined former President Chen, who said that the conditions under which the former president was being held constituted a “gross miscarriage of justice and human rights”;
Supports the appeal made in March 2013 by the International Group of Independent Experts on Human Rights to the Government of Taiwan that, on humanitarian grounds, it takes appropriate action in relation to the serious health problems of former President Chen;
Appeals that adequate and intensive medical care be given immediately to the former president by independent medical experts; and
Trusts that the grant of medical parole to Former President Chen would pave the way for genuine political reconciliation and maturation of Taiwanese democracy.
For the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats:
Sam Rainsy J.R. Nereus Acosta
Chairperson Secretary General
