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TAIWAN: The right to truth is truth for every person
Presentation at the 24 March webinar “The UN Day of the Right to Truth on Human Rights Violations: The Tai Ji Men Case in Comparative Perspective”
The Tai Ji Men Case Discussed at the Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting
Scholars argued that labels such as “cult,” “xie jiao,” or “religious fraud” have no real meaning and are used as tools for discrimination.
TAIWAN: Tai Ji Men: Arbitrary auction, fabricated case, illegal arrest of Ms Huang
On 10 December, Human Rights Day, CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions) and HRWF (Human Rights Without Frontiers) held a press conference online to launch a White Paper titled “Justice Denied: The Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan”, an in-depth report by independent experts on a crucial issue: the judicial, administrative and fiscal bullying of a peaceful and law-abiding group rooted in esoteric Taoism.
Citizen to Citizen Diplomacy for Tai Ji Men
Taiwanese students in American universities and others who are in a position to help should be mobilized in favor of Tai Ji Men.
Tai Ji Men’s Youth, Between Tragedy and Hope
A seminar in Walnut, California, celebrates the young Tai Ji Men dizi who continue to fight for justice, peace, and freedom of religion or belief.
“O Timeless Youth, O Ever Renewed Hope:” A Poem for Tai Ji Men
Controlling the youth is a common feature of all totalitarian regimes. To show it is a real democracy, Taiwan should solve the Tai Ji Men case.
Tai Ji Men spiritual school: 24 years of persecution (1996-2020) – Part III: Unheard voices of some ‘collateral victims’ of an anti-TJM prosecutor
24 years ago, Prosecutor Kuan-jen Hou commanded hundreds of armed policemen to raid and search 19 properties, including the facilities of Tai Ji Men (TJM) and its disciples’ residences in different parts of Taiwan.
Generation Z, Spirituality, and Tai Ji Men
Introduction to the hybrid seminar “The Stolen Youth of Tai Ji Men,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on August 8, 2022, in Walnut, California, in sight of the UN International Youth Day of August 12.
True Friendship, Peace, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Tai Ji Men is the living testimony that friendship can be a problem-solving tool at both domestic and international levels. A 12th-century Cistercian monk taught it already.
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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