Articles

Both the fight against the White Terror and Tai Ji Men’s resilience against persecution demonstrate that a passion for truth cannot be vanquished. by Thierry Valle* *A video paper presented at the conference “End State Persecution and Implement Transitional Justice:...

I have experienced and loved many times the magic of Taiwan. But the Tai Ji Men case contradicts its promise of liberty.

Catholics and Hindus regard 2025 as a special year of repentance and atonement. Will 2025 in Taiwan also be a year for rendering justice to Tai Ji Men?

Laws should always embody justice, or justice becomes what laws arbitrarily decide it to be. As the Tai Ji Men case shows all too well after 29 years, not all laws are just.

By Willy Fautré* *A paper presented at the webinar “The Judiciary, Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the Tai Ji Men Case,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on January 11, 2025, Taiwan’s Judicial Day. An article already published...

Scholars and human rights activists examined the central features of the case in an important day for Taiwan.

Colonialism and discrimination of spiritual minorities are based on similar prejudices, as the history of the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.

Truly independent judges would rule on the basis of the law only, not political pressures, media, or “public opinion.” They would have solved the Tai Ji Men case long ago.

Decisions against Tai Ji Men suggest that distortions of administrative justice studied by international scholars are at work in Taiwan too.