Rescue Case List
21
Total cases
13
Rescue in progress
7
Exonerated
1
Executed, awaiting exoneration
Map of Wrongful Convictions in Taiwan
Rescue in progress (13)
Exonerated (7)
Executed, awaiting exoneration (1)
The map includes the outlying islands of Kinmen, Matsu, and Penghu; there are currently no cases there.
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Chiou Ho-shun
Kidnapping-murder
Taipei
Death sentence final. The 1987 case rests solely on 288 contradictory confession records; detained for over 38 years — Taiwan's longest-held death-row prisoner.
Rescue ongoing
Lo Ming-ts'un
Corruption
New Taipei
13 years imprisonment, final. Former head of the Xinzhuang Precinct criminal investigation squad, with a clear alibi; several key testimonies were obtained through leading.
Rescue ongoing
Ch'iu Sung-ch'eng
Murder
Kaohsiung
Life imprisonment, final. In September 2025 the Supreme Court reversed the Kaohsiung branch court's rejection of the retrial motion for the 4th time; the case is still being fought.
Rescue ongoing
Wang Lung-chang
Corruption
Taipei
7 years 8 months imprisonment, final. National Taipei University of Technology professor; the sole tainted witness accusing him of bribery gave gravely contradictory accounts.
Rescue ongoing
Lu Chun-kuan
Corruption
Kaohsiung
13 years imprisonment, final. Former investigation officer; no wiretaps, surveillance footage, or other physical evidence — convicted solely on the operators' statements.
Rescue ongoing
Lai Ting-fu
Corruption
Hualien
7 years imprisonment, final. The first-instance court inspected the site in person and acquitted; the second instance held a single hearing and convicted on the same evidence.
Rescue ongoing
Hsiao Ming-yueh
Drug offenses
Taichung
Life imprisonment, final. No direct physical evidence; accomplices later recanted, saying they were induced to accuse him, yet the conviction was upheld.
Rescue ongoing
Hsu Pei-ming
Sexual offense
Kaohsiung
5 years 10 months imprisonment, final. Special-education teacher; police and school questioning was riddled with leading, and the expert opinion overstepped its scope.
Rescue ongoing
Lin Chun-sen
Leaking secrets
Taipei
Four months of detention, final. Former Control Yuan investigator; the High Court rejected retrial, and as the conviction became final at second instance, no further appeal is possible.
Rescue ongoing
Lin Yu-wen
False accusation, defamation
Tainan
Conviction final. Counter-sued after making a report; the case involves the constitutional controversy over criminal defamation, on which the Constitutional Court ruled in 2023.
Rescue ongoing
Chen Ching-k'ai
Fraud (feigning blindness)
Taipei
Imprisonment final. Former national handball player accused of feigning blindness for insurance; three criminal retrial motions have all been rejected.
Rescue ongoing
Kuo Chung-hsiung (other cases)
Theft (torture-linked)
Hsinchu
The Chin Jui Chen goldsmith robbery case was overturned in 2020; the other theft convictions extracted in the same wave of torture are still in retrial proceedings.
Rescue ongoing
Su Chien-ho
Robbery-murder
New Taipei
Acquitted with finality in August 2012 (with Liu Bin-lang and Chuang Lin-xun), after 21 years, multiple death sentences, and three remands. Civil litigation continues.
Exonerated
Hsu Tzu-chiang
Kidnapping-murder
Taipei
Acquitted with finality in October 2016, after 21 years and multiple death sentences; released in 2012 under the Criminal Speedy Trial Act and finally exonerated in 2016.
Exonerated
Chiang Kuo-ching
Rape-murder
Taipei
Acquitted on retrial in September 2011 (already executed). Executed in 1997; the real perpetrator's DNA surfaced 14 years later. Compensation of NT$103.18 million was awarded.
Executed;
acquitted on retrial
acquitted on retrial
Huang Hui-fu
Negligent serious injury
New Taipei
Acquitted on retrial with finality in December 2019. A surgeon accused of a treatment error, exonerated on the strength of three expert reports from NTUH, Tri-Service General Hospital, and Taipei Veterans General Hospital.
Exonerated
Mei Fu-an
Embezzlement
Keelung
Acquitted on retrial in 2014. An immigrant from China over 70 years old; the complainant was later found not to be the deceased's son and thus had no standing to complain.
Exonerated
Hsueh Ching-piao
Obstruction of military service
Chiayi
Acquitted with finality on May 9, 2025. Having long lost reservist status due to a heavy drug sentence, he was nonetheless wrongly prosecuted for missing an educational call-up.
Exonerated
Kuo Chung-hsiung (Chin Jui Chen case)
Robbery
Hsinchu
Acquitted on retrial in March 2020. Tortured into confessing in 1986, in the same case as Su Ping-kun; the Chin Jui Chen goldsmith robbery case was finally overturned after 34 years.
Exonerated
Lu Cheng
Kidnapping-murder
Tainan
Executed in September 2000. The Control Yuan later found genuine flaws in the investigation and handling of evidence, but as the defendant has been executed, formal judicial exoneration has yet to be realized.
Executed;
awaiting exoneration
awaiting exoneration
Last edited: July 3, 2026