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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.

Tai Ji Men offers a praiseworthy example of global advocacy for peace and justice. The injustice it suffers in Taiwan should be rectified.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the tenth time, the United Nations’s highest human rights body hears about the Tai Ji Men case.

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.

We normally associate violence against religion or belief with blood and torture. But court decisions may be inherently violent, too.