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Who Stole Their Youth? The Tai Ji Men case in Taiwan. A story of suffering, resilience, and protest written and directed by Massimo Introvigne.

The Tai Ji Men case is a distressing example of Taiwan’s failure to live up to its democratic promises.

French history proves that countries with democratically elected Parliaments can nonetheless abuse human rights. This is true for Taiwan, too.

Several countries have recognized that democratically elected Parliaments and serious human rights violations may unfortunately coexist.

Several events presented the Tai Ji Men case in connection with one of the world’s largest freedom of religion events.

At one of the largest European gatherings of scholars of religion, academics and dizi discussed the situation in Taiwan.

Tai Ji Men was among the victims of the 1996 crackdown on those religious movements that were accused of not having supported the ruling party in the presidential elections, the last act of Taiwan’s post-authoritarian repression of independent spiritual groups. While...

Scholars and dizi presented papers on different angles of the 25-year-old case at Quebec City’s Université Laval

Taiwan’s government initiated the process of preparing reports on the rights protected by the two Covenants, and in 2013, an independent Review Committee with experts from nine different countries was invited to review these reports.