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Tai Ji Men and the UN Agenda 2030
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.
The Unjust Taichung Decision Against Tai Ji Men Is Denounced at the UN Human Rights Council
For the tenth time, the United Nations’s highest human rights body hears about the Tai Ji Men case.
The Kafkaesque Case of Tai Ji Men
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.
The Taichung Tai Ji Men Decision: When the Law Becomes a Tool of Violence
We normally associate violence against religion or belief with blood and torture. But court decisions may be inherently violent, too.
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: The Road to Serfdom and the Tai Ji Men Case
The decision by the Taichung High Administrative Court was a step towards serfdom, not liberty and democracy.
Tai Ji Men and the 2024 International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief
Violence against believers continues to shed blood. But there is also a less visible administrative violence, of which Tai Ji Men have become victims once again.
Article 28 of Taiwan’s Tax Collection Act and the August 2, 2024, Tai Ji Men Decision
The article was amended in 2021 to make it less favorable to taxpayers. But the Taichung High Administrative Court applied the amendment retroactively to unjustly hit Tai Ji Men.
The Precessional Transition and the Tai ji Men Case
A reading of Tai Ji Men and the Tai Ji Men case based on the “transition studies” of French author Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière.
From Aeschylus to Tai Ji Men: When Courts of Law Generate Violence
Decisions of courts of law can both prevent and generate violence. The fathers of the Greek tragedy already knew it, as does—unfortunately—Tai Ji Men.
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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