Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian has been released from prison on medical parole, having served five years of a 20-year sentence for embezzlement, bribery and money laundering.
Chen, 64, is the only member of an opposition party to have been elected to the highest office in Taiwan, ruling from 2000 to 2008, and overturning more than six decades of rule by the nationalist Kuomintang party.
Many of his supporters viewed his 2009 conviction — for embezzlement of diplomatic funds, bribery and money laundering — as an act of political revenge by the ruling KMT.
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