Bernadette Carreon – Fourth Estate Cooperative Contributor
Taipei, Taiwan (4E) – Taiwan will also be coming up with its own result of its probe on the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard last month.
This as the Philippine probers announced that it is recommending filing of criminal charges against the Philippine coast guard for the shooting.
The Pingtung District Prosecutors Office will publish its findings in the next few days, Taiwan’s Deputy Justice Minister, Chen Ming-tong, said in Taipei.
Among the issues in the report was whether the incident took place within the Philippine territory, and whether the PCG action of shooting at the Taiwan’s fishermen was a defensive act.
The shooting incident happened at sea 164 nautical miles southeast of Taiwan on May 9, when Philippine Coast Guard officers shot and killed 65-year-old Taiwan fisherman Hung Shih-Cheng.
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