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Taxes, the Rule of Law, and the Tai Ji Men Case
What happened to Tai Ji Men raises serious doubt on whether laws are respected in Taiwan when dealing with taxpayers.
From the 228 Incident to the Tai Ji Men Case: A Conference in Taipei
On March 5, international and Taiwanese scholars and activists gathered to commemorate 228 and discuss the implications of the Tai Ji Men case.
“What Kind of Justice?”: Transitional Justice and Freedom from Discrimination in the Tai Ji Men Case
The actions of the Taiwanese government towards Tai Ji Men violated both the Two Covenants it incorporated into its domestic law and basic principles of transitional justice.
The Conscience Principle and Transitional Justice: The Tai Ji Men Human Rights Case
Temporal limitations of transitional justice and of the possibility of submitting new evidence are against both conscience and international human rights covenants.
We the People Should Take Responsibility for the Tai Ji Men Case
In a democracy, citizens are responsible for making sure that officials do not fall prey to corruption and abuse their power.
The Urgency to Rectify the Tai Ji Men Human Rights Case
A summary of how the criminal and tax cases were fabricated from the beginning and supported by the lie that Tai Ji Men offered tuition as a cram school.
Restorative and Compensatory Justice and the Tai Ji Men Case
It is time to reflect on the nature and foundation of justice and finally grant it to Tai Ji Men in Taiwan.
The Two United Nations Covenants and the Tai Ji Men Case
International observers continue to watch whether Taiwan respects the Covenants it incorporated into its domestic law in 2009. In the case of Tai Ji Men, it doesn’t.
“Summum Ius, Summa Iniuria”: From Cicero to Tai Ji Men
More than two thousand years ago, legal scholars already understood that sometimes the literal application of a law creates the worst injustice.
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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