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The 228 Incident and the Tai Ji Men Case
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...
A Dream of Formosa and Tai Ji Men
I have experienced and loved many times the magic of Taiwan. But the Tai Ji Men case contradicts its promise of liberty.
2025: A Jubilee Year for the Tai Ji Men Case?
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?
Zorro and the Tai Ji Men Case
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.
The Rule of Law and Justice Undermined by Conflicts of Interests in the Tai Ji Men Case
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...
Tai Ji Men Case Discussed on Taiwan’s Judicial Day
Scholars and human rights activists examined the central features of the case in an important day for Taiwan.
Judicial Day and the Tai Ji Men Case
Colonialism and discrimination of spiritual minorities are based on similar prejudices, as the history of the Tai Ji Men case demonstrates.
The Independence of the Judiciary and the Tai Ji Men Case
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.
Administrative Justice and the Tai Ji Men Case
Decisions against Tai Ji Men suggest that distortions of administrative justice studied by international scholars are at work in Taiwan 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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