| Pai Ya-tsan | |
| Native Name: | 白雅燦 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Date: | 1945 1, df=yes |
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Pai Ya-tsan (; 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. His political involvement began in 1969, campaigning for Huang Hsin-chieh, who won election to the Legislative Yuan. Suspected of sedition, Pai was jailed for four months in 1971, then released. 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] | |||||||||||
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| width=35 | No. | width=150 | Candidate | width=120 | Party | width=75 | Votes | width=75 | Percentage | width=49 | |
| 1 | Wei Ming-ku | Democratic Progressive Party | 283,269 | 39.87% | |||||||
| 2 | Wang Huei-mei | Kuomintang | 377,795 | 53.18% | |||||||
| 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% | ||||||||||