Video: meet Taiwan’s anti-death penalty activists

on 16 June 2009

The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty has just released a clip presenting its work and the status of capital punishment in the country.
The students who form TAEDP’s volunteer video team have been releasing more and more videos, which they produce in their home country and during their trips in Asia. They publish their work online, in Chinese and in English.>

Visit TAEDP’s YouTube channel to watch more videos produced by the volunteer video team.

Download the FIDH report mentioned in the video.

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