AKIPRESS.COM - Disgraced former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian has just been freed from prison after been granted one month's medical parole, South China Morning Post reports Monday.

He had spent more than six years in jail after being convicted of corruption during his time as the island’s leader between 2000 and 2008.

Chen sat in a wheelchair as he was pushed out of the gates of Taichung Prison at 3.30pm.

Wearing a cap, a feeble-looking but smiling Chen waved to several hundred supporters outside, who chanted “A-Bian Innocent”, and “A-Bian, go, go, go”.

He used a crutch to help him stand and walk to a black saloon car waiting beside the entrance.

Chen then rolled down the car window and waved again to supporters and journalists waiting along the road.

It took his car at least 20 minutes to make the short journey of no more than 50 metres before it reached the highway leading to his home in southern city of Kaohsiung.