Taiwan’s former president Lee Teng-hui, who earned the nickname “Mr Democracy” for the part he played in the island’s transition away from authoritarian rule, died Thursday aged 97, the hospital treating him said. “He died of septic shock and multiple organ failure today despite the medical team’s all-out efforts to revive him,” Taipei Veterans General Hospital vice president Hwang Shinn-jang told reporters. aw/jta/axn
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