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2020
Responding to Legislator's Doubts: Institutional Transition is Not an Issue, Not Having a Choice Is—Day 13 of Sit-in Protest Against the Inclusion of the Lay Assessor Bill in the Legislative Yuan's Extraordinary Session
In an op-ed published on July 7, Democratic Progressive Party caucus secretary-general and Legislator Chung Chia-pin…
2020
Official Stubbornness on Lay Judge System Met with Scholars' Rebuttal and Clarification—Day 12 of the Sit-in Protest Outside the Legislative Yuan Against the Inclusion of the National Lay Judge Bill in the Extraordinary Session
The 'Grand Alliance for the Parallel Trial of Jury and Lay Judge Systems'—composed of NGOs such as the Judicial Reform…
2020
Judicial Yuan Claims Dual Systems Cannot Coexist; Alliance Responds Not to Let Jury Trial Become Impractical—Day 11 of Sit-in Protest Against Legislative Yuan Provisional Session Including Citizen Judges Act Bill
The Judicial Yuan rejected the civil society's proposal for the concurrent trial of both systems on the grounds that…
2020
Responding to President Tsai Ing-wen: Who Is It That Denies the Value of Others' Views? Day 10 of the Sit-in Protest Against the Inclusion of the Lay Assessor Bill in the Legislative Yuan's Extraordinary Session
In response to President Tsai Ing-wen's remarks in an interview yesterday (the 7th) claiming that the Alliance denies…
2020
5th Anniversary Global Online Commemoration of the "709 Crackdown" & 4th China Human Rights Lawyers Day
This July marks the fifth anniversary of the "709 Crackdown." Although lawyer Wang Ch'üan-chang has finally been…
2020
Wide-Angle Perspective: 709
On July 31, 2012, the overseas edition of the People's Daily published an article titled "Where Do China's True…
2020
Responding to Caucus Whip K'o's Objections to the Jury System, the Alliance Will Continue Its Sit-in—Day 9 of the Sit-in Protest Against the Legislative Yuan's Extraordinary Session Scheduling of the Citizen Judges Act Bill
Formed by NGOs such as the Judicial Reform Foundation and the Taiwan Association for Parliamentarianism (Taiwan Jury…
2020
Stop Evading the Issue on Negotiating Lay Participation, DPP Must Clear the Air—Eighth Day of Sit-in Protest Against the Inclusion of the National Lay Participation Bill in the Legislative Yuan's Extraordinary Session
The Alliance for Parallel Trial Implementation of Lay Judge and Jury Systems, composed of civil groups including the…
2020
Lay Participation in Trials Should Not Be Hastily Legislate, and the DPP Should Pull Back from the Brink—Day 8 of the Sit-In Protest Against the Inclusion of the Lay Participation Bill in the Legislative Yuan's Provisional Session
The Alliance pointed out that the draft "Lay Assessor Act" has entered cross-party consultations during the Legislative…
