Press Releases
2021
Joint Open Letter | An Open Letter to Xi Jinping Calling for the Release of Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan
A coalition of nongovernmental organizations defending human rights and press freedom urged Xi Jinping to exonerate and…
2021
Civil Society Continues to Call for a Separate National Human Rights Commission Powers Exercise Act
Covenants Watch and other civil society organizations argue that Taiwan's National Human Rights Commission should have…
2021
Are All Judges and Prosecutors Fit, or Has the Evaluation System Failed? Press Conference Marking One Year Under the Amended Judges Act
One year after members of the public were allowed to petition directly for evaluation of judges and prosecutors, no…
2021
Interview with Attorney Wu Yushui: The "Stolen Right to Defense" of the Changsha Public Welfare Trio
Known as the "Changsha Public Welfare Trio," Chinese NGO workers Ch'en Yüan, Wu Ke-chien-hsiung, and Liu Ta-chih were…
2021
Public Hearings as the Rule for Judge and Prosecutor Disciplinary Cases-JRF Statement on the Judicial Yuan's Proposed Judges Act Amendment
The Judicial Yuan proposed amending the Judges Act so disciplinary proceedings involving judges and prosecutors before…
2021
Bring Ming-Che Home: Press Conference for the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
After more than 1,623 days of Li Ming-Che's detention in China, his family still lacked regular communication, reliable…
2021
Post-Event Press Release | How Can We Prevent Wrongful Convictions? Building Systems for Evidence Custody and Forensic Science
The first forum in the Civil Society Alliance's follow-up series on the National Conference on Judicial Reform focused…
2021
Does President Tsai Still Care About Unimplemented Judicial Reform Resolutions? Press Conference Marking Four Years Since the National Conference on Judicial Reform
Four years after the National Conference on Judicial Reform, some resolutions had produced legislation or new measures,…
2021
When Hsin-Fu Comes Knocking-Press Conference Marking Ten Years Since Wang Hsin-Fu's Death Sentence Became Final and the Launch of the Rescue Team
July 27, 2021 marked ten years since Wang Hsin-Fu's death sentence became final. Nine civil society organizations…
