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24Mar.
2014

An Account of the Executive Yuan's Dark Suppression on the Night Of

Li Ch'üan-ho / Attorney, Teacher Li Tse, Attorney for the Volunteer Lawyers' Group Against the Trade-in-Services Agreement Black Box

This is in front of the Executive Yuan in the early morning hours, at the end of the crackdown. The sky is bright, but…

23Mar.
2014

President Ma Is Leading the Destruction of the Democracy and Rule of Law He Claims to Care About Most

318 Anti-Black Box Service Trade Agreement Pro Bono Lawyer Team

President Ma's press conference this morning offered nothing beyond "policy promotion" and completely undermined…

21Mar.
2014

First-Instance Verdict for Prosecutor-General Huang Shih-ming ~ JRF Statement

Judicial Reform Foundation

The Foundation issues a statement regarding the first-instance guilty verdict and subsequent resignation of…

21Mar.
2014

Release Wei Yang and Prosecute Police Abuse of Power!

Judicial Reform Foundation

In response to the order given last night (March 23) by the President, the Premier, and the Director-General of the…

19Mar.
2014

Ten Questions for the Prosecutor-General

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Taiwan Association for Human Rights / Judicial Reform Foundation (民間司改會執行長)

The President nominated current Supreme Prosecutors Office Chief Prosecutor Yen Ta-ho as the Prosecutor-General…

17Mar.
2014

Congressional Perspective—The Communication Security and Surveillance Act Amendment Should Take Effect As Soon As Possible

Chiang Nien-tsu / Assistant Professor, Master's Program in Nonprofit Management, Nanhua University; Legislative Bill Convener for Legislator Ker Chien-ming's Office

After several late-night review sessions in the Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee during the fourth…

12Mar.
2014

Plant Closures Case: The CLA's Consistent Shifting of Blame

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation, Attorney-at-Law

The first winning judgment for closed-plant workers in court means that a judge has finally refused to blindly endorse…

11Mar.
2014

Why the Judiciary is Powerless to Handle the Hung Chung-chiu Case

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, JRF, and Attorney-at-Law

Hannah Arendt wrote in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil: "There we beheld a gigantic, complex…

05Mar.
2014

Grandma Doesn't Need to Worry About Judicial 228

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

My childhood textbooks contained no mention of the February 28 Incident, nor did the small town where I grew up. One…