LATEST ARTICLES
“Pax Cultura”: Why Protecting Tai Ji Men’s Sacred Land is Essential to Peace
International law, at whose origin is the “Roerich Pact” promoted in the 1930s by Russian painter Nicholas Roerich, protects the inviolability of religious buildings and lands.
International Day of Peace: Tai Ji Men’s Pursuit of Equality, Justice, and Conscience-Based Peace
Tai Ji Men offers a praiseworthy example of global advocacy for peace and justice. The injustice it suffers in Taiwan should be rectified.
“The Truth, the Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth”: Transitional and Restorative Justice in the Tai Ji Men Case
Denying justice to Tai Ji Men, as the Taichung High Administrative Court did on August 2, means that transitional justice problems have not been solved in Taiwan.
There Will Be No Peace Without Real Justice for Tai Ji Men
An international webinar on the eve of UN International Day of Peace discussed the necessary connection between peace and justice, and the Tai Ji Men case.
No Peace Without Real Justice: The Pillar of Sustainable Social Harmony
In theory, everybody is in favor of peace. However, peace is impossible if injustices such as the one vested on Tai Ji Men in Taiwan are not rectified.
Tai Ji Men and the UN Agenda 2030
Peace through justice is the first goal for a sustainable world. The U.N. and democratic states themselves are often weak in pursuing it, as the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.
The Unjust Taichung Decision Against Tai Ji Men Is Denounced at the UN Human Rights Council
For the tenth time, the United Nations’s highest human rights body hears about the Tai Ji Men case.
The Kafkaesque Case of Tai Ji Men
We can all understand, without justifying it, episodes of corruption. But it is the blatant capsizing of reality that bewilders the world in face of the non-justice inflicted on Tai Ji Men for almost thirty years.
The Taichung Tai Ji Men Decision: When the Law Becomes a Tool of Violence
We normally associate violence against religion or belief with blood and torture. But court decisions may be inherently violent, too.
Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
We join Tai Ji Men in respectfully asking the government of Taiwan, whose commitment to democracy in a region plagued by non-democratic regimes we appreciate and applaud, to return through a political act the confiscated sacred land to Tai Ji Men and publicly confirm that, as Taiwan’s Supreme Court stated, they never violated the law nor evaded taxes.
It would be a small step for Taiwan’s government, but a crucial one to tell the world Taiwan is truly committed to freedom of religion or belief and to the protection of religious and spiritual minorities that were once persecuted by its authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes.
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“The Tai Ji Men Case” web site is a project by Action Alliance to Redress 1219 whose aim is to collect and put at the readers’ easy disposal articles, documents, and videos—from academic studies to magazine articles—about the case of Tai Ji Men, a mempai (similar to a school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation headquartered in Taiwan, which has been victim of discrimination and persecution in its home country since 1996, and whose street protests have generated widespread international protests. Here you can find an exhaustive chronology of the case.
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