Press Releases
2021
"Human Rights Must Not Be Compromised in the Judicial Response to the Pandemic!" - JRF Statement Urging the Legislative Yuan to Closely Review the Special Act for the Judicial Procedures during the Period of Communicable Diseases with Severe Epidemic Conditions
To respond to emergency epidemic-control measures, the Judicial Yuan approved the draft Special Act for the Judicial…
2021
General Explanation of JRF's Draft Partial Amendments to the Special Act for the Judicial Procedures during the Period of Communicable Diseases with Severe Epidemic Conditions
2021
Joint Statement | In Extraordinary Times, No One Can Be Left Behind - Civil-Society Appeal for Juvenile Correctional Institutions During COVID-19
During Taiwan's 2021 Level 3 COVID-19 restrictions, civil-society organizations called on the Ministry of Justice and…
2021
President Tsai Ing-Wen Should Seriously Consider Pardoning Chiou Ho-shun - Statement Following the President's First Exercise of the Pardon Power
After President Tsai granted her first pardon to Indigenous hunter Talum Suqluman, organizations supporting Chiou…
2021
Protecting Life and Road Safety: Reform of the Hit-and-Run Offense Cannot Wait!
With the two-year deadline from Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 777 about to expire, JRF criticized the Ministry of…
2021
If Your Account Is Used, Does That Make You Part of a Scam Ring?! - Press Conference on Petitioning the National Human Rights Commission
JRF asks the National Human Rights Commission to investigate systemic problems in Taiwan's treatment of "dummy account"…
2021
Press Conference on the Constitutional Interpretation in the Indigenous Hunting Rights Cases of Wang Kuang-Lu, Pan Chih-Chiang, and Others
After Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 803, Indigenous petitioners, attorneys, and civil-society groups welcomed the…
2021
Hai-Wang's Daybreak | Opening Press Conference for the Taichung Special Exhibition - Chiou Ho-shun's Forgotten 32 Years
The Taichung edition of "Hai-Wang's Daybreak" opened with calligraphy and dance, followed by calls from attorneys,…
2021
Who Will Take Political Responsibility for the Weng Mao-Chung Scandal? The Judicial Yuan and Ministry of Justice Are Merely Going Through the Motions - Shih Mu-Chin Monitoring Press Conference V
After a second round of disciplinary results concerning judges, prosecutors, and other officials implicated in the Weng…
