Around 100 supporters of Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian protested outside the hospital where he is on hunger strike Tuesday, criticising his ongoing detention as political persecution. Chen was rushed to hospital on Sunday suffering from dehydration, four days after refusing to eat in protest at what he says are politically-motivated corruption allegations against him. The protestors, who came from the former leader’s hometown in the south of the island, shouted “unfair justice” and “political persecution.” Full Story