Kaohsiung Incident
Two years later (in December 1979) the Kuomintang arrested all of the leaders of the anti-Kuomintang movement who had organized a gathering in Kaohsiung on International Human Rights Day. The purge is known as the Kaohsiung Incident. The entire leadership was sentenced to long prison terms, including DPP politician Chen Chu, and Shih Ming-teh, labelled as Taiwan's Nelson Mandela, who was handed a life sentence. Shi was later released with the arrival of democracy.