Fang Su-min

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Fang Su-min
Taipei County, Keelung, Yilan
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Personal details
NationalityTaiwanese
Political partyIndependent
SpouseLin Yi-hsiung
Occupationpolitician

Fang Su-min (Chinese: 方素敏) is a Taiwanese politician.

She is married to Lin Yi-hsiung. Fang visited her imprisoned husband in 1980 and contacted Amnesty International about their meeting, during which Lin disclosed that he had been tortured. After Fang's visit, her twin daughters and mother-in-law were stabbed to death [zh].[1] Fang escaped the stabbing entirely, as she was attending a public hearing held regarding the events of the Kaohsiung Incident, the cause of Lin Yi-hsiung's arrest.[2][3] Fang and her surviving daughter moved to the United States after the attack.[3] The attack occurred on February 28, 1980 (an anniversary of the 228 Incident) and was widely understood to have been a KMT-government-ordered assassination.[4]: 168 

In October 1983, Fang returned to Taiwan and began campaigning for a seat on the Legislative Yuan.

tangwai activist Pai Ya-tsan.[11] After Fang stepped down from the Legislative Yuan, she and Lin established the Chilin Foundation in 1991.[12]

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