Asia | Banyan
The trials of Ah-Bian
Bringing Taiwan’s former president to trial is ground-breaking. A shame about the judicial flaws

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Illustration by M. Morgenstern
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The trials of Ah-Bian”

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