Pai Ya-tsan (Chinese: 白雅燦; pinyin: Bái Yǎcàn; born 8 January 1945) is a Taiwanese political activist. During his imprisonment, Amnesty International designated Pai a prisoner of conscience.
Raised in Changhua County, Pai studied law at National Chengchi University.[1] His political involvement began in 1969, campaigning for Huang Hsin-chieh, who won election to the Legislative Yuan.[1] Suspected of sedition, Pai was jailed for four months in 1971, then released.[1][2] In 1973, he supported a number of tangwai candidates for Taipei City Council.[1] Pai chose to contest the legislative election of 1975, but was arrested in October for distributing campaign fliers which contained 29 questions addressed to Chiang Ching-kuo, as well as political policies suggested by Pai.[2][3] The next month, he went to trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court.[4] While imprisoned he went on hunger strikes to protest foreign policies and political repression.[5][6] In February 1986, legislators Chiang Peng-chien and Fang Su-min petitioned for Pai's release.[7] Instead, Pai's prison sentence was commuted to fifteen years upon the lifting of martial law in July 1987.[8] Throughout the year, Pai's health continued to decline,[8] and he was released in April 1988.[9]
In November 2018, Pai contested the Changhua County magistracy as an independent candidate.[10]
| 2018 Changhua County magistrate election results[11] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Candidate | Party | Votes | Percentage | |
| 1 | Wei Ming-ku | Democratic Progressive Party | 283,269 | 39.87% | |
| 2 | Wang Huei-mei |  Kuomintang |
377,795 | 53.18% | 
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| 3 | Pai Ya-tsan |  Independent |
7,402 | 1.04% | |
| 4 | Huang Wen-ling | Independent |
34,690 | 4.88% | |
| 5 | Hung Min-xiong (洪敏雄) | Independent |
7,263 | 1.02% | |
| Total voters | 1,031,222 | ||||
| Valid votes | 710,419 | ||||
| Invalid votes | |||||
| Voter turnout | 68.89% | ||||
References
- ^ a b c d "Pai Ya-ts'an: profile of a political prisoner" (PDF). Taiwan Communiqué (22): 16–18. October 1985. ISSN 1027-3999. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ a b Han Cheung (20 October 2019). "Taiwan in Time: White Terror in late October". Taipei Times. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
- ^ "AI urges Taiwan government to release election candidate" (PDF). Amnesty International. February 1976. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "Pai Ya-tsan, Republic of China (Taiwan)" (PDF). Amnesty International. August 1985. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "Pai Ya-tsan on hunger strike" (PDF). Taiwan Communiqué (17): 20. November 1984. ISSN 1027-3999. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "Imprisoned Taiwanese opposition leaders on hunger strike" (PDF). Taiwan Communiqué (20): 1. June 1985. ISSN 1027-3999. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "Prison Report: Two political prisoners on hunger strike again" (PDF). Taiwan Communiqué (25): 15. May 1986. ISSN 1027-3999. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Prison report: Pai Ya-ts'an's health deteriorating" (PDF). Taiwan Communiqué (33): 16. February 1988. ISSN 1027-3999. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "Why They Were Arrested and Imprisoned" (PDF). Taiwan Communiqué (34): 19. May 1988. ISSN 1027-3999. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ "臺灣省彰化縣第十八屆縣長選舉選舉公 報" (PDF) (in Chinese). Central Election Commission. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "2018 Local Elections". Archived from the original on 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
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