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When a Review Falls Short: Taiwan’s Human Rights Test and the Case That Refuses to Disappear
A closer look at the 2026 ICCPR–ICESCR review reveals that key concerns went unanswered, while the decades-long Tai Ji Men injustice continues.
The Price of Belief: Misuse of Taxes, the Two Covenants, and the Tai Ji Men Case at the UN Human Rights Council—Again
A new submission highlights abuses of fiscal authority against spiritual groups, revealing systemic weaknesses and persistent human rights concerns.
The Fourth Estate on Trial: What the Tai Ji Men Case Reveals About Press Freedom
Experts warned that when corrupt bureaucrats and prosecutors control the narratives, reporting becomes re‑education, and minorities pay the highest price.
Fake News, Spiritual Minorities, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Unscrupulous journalists publish fake news about “cults.” Then they refuse to correct themselves.
Media and the Manufacture of Truth: The Tai Ji Men Case in Light of Alessandro Manzoni
When, instead of informing, the press becomes a re-educator of the people, oppression and even violence are just around the corner.
The Need for Balanced Media Narratives and the Tai Ji Men Case
When the media exploits attention and outrage, the importance of a balanced, value‑based discourse loses ground.
Media, Disasters, and the Scapegoating of Minorities: Lessons for the Tai Ji Men Case
Natural disasters and political campaigns may both lead the media to slander groups that the powers that be do not like.
When Words Become Weapons: From Rwanda’s Hate Media to the Tai Ji Men Case
Reflecting on the propaganda that prepared the 1994 genocide and on how unchecked media hostility against minorities shows the urgent need to stop hate speech.
Tax and Legal Reform League Protests in Taiwan
The Tai Ji Men case exposes systemic flaws in which fabricated evidence and unlawful tax bills went unchallenged for 30 years.
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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