Press Releases
2022
Statement | Press Conference on Second-Instance Victory in the State Compensation Case over the March 24 Executive Yuan Violent Eviction
Nearly eight years after the incident, every frontline officer who used violence remains "Unidentifiable." No one has…
2022
Press Conference | Chasing Headlines Even at the Cost of Violating Non-Disclosure of Investigations? Call for Prompt Establishment of Police Performance Management Committees
At the end of last year, civil society groups received reports from rank-and-file police officers that the Kaohsiung…
2022
Press Conference | Ensure External Independence and Transparent Oversight-2021 Annual Review of Correctional External Inspection Panels
One year after the Prison Act and Detention Act created independent external inspection panels, the JRF reviewed…
2022
Statement | Lo Shih-Hsiang: Drug-Testing Errors Expose Systemic Forensic-Science Deficiencies
Lo Shih-Hsiang of the Taiwan Association for Innocence explains how delayed development of Eutylone testing created a…
2022
Press Conference | Drug-Testing Error Exposes Systemic Forensic-Science Deficiencies-Establish a National Forensic Science Commission
Following reports that Eutylone may have been misidentified as Pentylone, the Taiwan Forensic Science Promotion…
2022
Statement | Legislator Chiu Hsien-Chih: Building a Forensic-Science System That Can Correct Its Own Errors
Legislator Chiu Hsien-Chih argues that difficult-to-distinguish synthetic cathinones illustrate the unavoidable limits…
2022
Post-Event Press Release | Civil Society Opposes Ineffective Custodial-Protection Amendments
Civil-society organizations and legislators oppose legislation that would remove the upper limit on custodial…
2022
Press Conference | Reducing Judicial Workload and Improving Judicial Quality: Release of the Draft Proposals
The JRF proposes a package of legislative and administrative reforms aimed at reducing excessive workloads for judges,…
2022
Joint Statement | Do Not Rush the Custodial-Protection Amendments Before Constitutional and Preventive Concerns Are Resolved
Civil-society organizations urge the Legislative Yuan to remove proposed custodial-protection amendments from the…
