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06Nov.
2025

Joint Statement | Opposing Unconstitutional and Human Rights-Violating Legislative Amendments—Joint Statement by Civil Society Organizations Concerning the Executive Yuan's Draft Amendments Imposing Harsher Penalties

Covenant Watch, Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Taiwan Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Taiwan Association for Innocence, Taiwan Labor Front, Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan Prison Reform

From late last year to August of this year, legislators successively proposed legislative amendment bills for "life…

23Oct.
2025

Speeches | Press Conference: 270 Days of Constitutional Crisis! The Constitutional Court Must Not Remain Paralyzed; Breaking the Deadlock on Its Own Is Not Overreach

Judicial Reform Foundation

Speeches from the press conference titled "270 Days of Constitutional Crisis! The Constitutional Court Cannot Be…

22Oct.
2025

Press Release | 270 Days of Constitutional Crisis! The Constitutional Court Must Not Remain Paralyzed; Breaking the Deadlock on Its Own Is Not Overreach

Grand Justices Nomination Oversight Alliance

As long as the Constitutional Court cannot perform its duty to monitor and check other branches of power in accordance…

17Oct.
2025

Public Financial Disclosure | April–June 2025 JRF Financial Disclosure Registry

Judicial Reform Foundation

15Oct.
2025

Joint Statement|Do Not Share Sexual Assault Videos; Taipei Main Station Must Strengthen Personal Safety Monitoring Systems and Promote Friendly Bystander Intervention

Joint statement by Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation and Judicial Reform Foundation

Regarding media reports about a woman being publicly assaulted at Taipei Main Station, the footage has sparked public…

03Oct.
2025

Statement | "Human Rights Protections Incomplete, Constitutional Court Still Paralyzed" – JRF Statement on the High Court's Resumed Adjudication of the "Flag Desecration Case"

Judicial Reform Foundation

The Judicial Reform Foundation (JRF) issued a statement regarding the Taiwan High Court's resumed adjudication of a…

01Oct.
2025

Press Release | Ministry of Justice's Hasty Legislative Amendments Brush Off the Constitutional Court: Combating Drug Crime Cannot Rely Solely on Extreme Punitiveness

Judicial Reform Foundation

In TCC Judgment 112-Hsien-Pan-13 (2023), the Constitutional Court held that the mandatory death or life sentence for…

24Sep.
2025

Statement | Pro Bono Legal Team for the Hsiao Ming-yueh Case Issues Statement on the Dismissal of the Criminal Retrial Motion

Judicial Reform Foundation

Regarding the wrongful drug trafficking conviction of Hsiao Ming-yueh, the Supreme Court on September 4, 2025, rendered…

19Sep.
2025

Press Release | Judicial Reform Stagnant: Civil Society Groups Propose Criminal Human Rights Reforms

Judicial Reform Foundation

This month marks the opening of the new legislative session of the Legislative Yuan, the fourth session since President…