Liu Cheng-hung (; born 12 November 1947) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of
Miaoli County
Miaoli County (Mandarin Pinyin: ''miáo lì xiàn''; Hakka PFS: ''Mèu-li̍t-yen''; Hokkien POJ: ''Biâu-le̍k-koān'' or ''Miâu-le̍k-koān'') is a county in western Taiwan. Miaoli is adjacent with Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City to the nort ...
from 20 December 2005 until 25 December 2014.
Controversies
Shoe throwing incident
On 18 September 2013, a
shoe was thrown at him by student Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷) when Liu attempted to offer his condolences during the memorial service to the family of a man named Chang Sen-wen (張森文), who was found dead in a water channel under a bridge at
Dapu,
Zhunan
Zhunan Township is an urban township in northern Miaoli County, Taiwan. Its city centre forms a continuous urban area with Toufen.
Name
Literally, ''Zhúnán'' () means "bamboo south" but in this context, ''zhú'' is short for "Hsinchu". Th ...
. Supporters and relatives of Chang held Liu responsible for Chang's death because Chang's pharmacy was one of several structures destroyed by the county government on 17 July 2013 to make way for the construction of a new campus at the
Hsinchu Science Park. On 25 June 2015, the
Taichung branch of Taiwan High Court ruled Chen guilty in the shoe-throwing incident but exempted him from any punishment.
Impeachment
The
Control Yuan impeached Liu in August 2016 after an investigation found that Miaoli County accrued a debt of NT$67.6 billion under his leadership.
References
Magistrates of Miaoli County
Living people
1947 births
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