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The Naked Truth About the Tai Ji Men Case
The iconographic theme of the undressed Truth lifted out of a well by Time is a powerful metaphor for what happened to Tai Ji Men.
A New Website for the Tai Ji Men Case
Working side by side with Bitter Winter, taijimencase.org will present the history of the Tai Ji Men case and will be a clarion call for truth and justice.
Does the World Know the Truth About the Tai Ji Men Case?
Two webinars on the U.N. Day for the Right to the Truth on Gross Human Rights Violation examined the respective role of slander and advocacy, and launched a new website.
What the Tai Ji Men Case Tells Us About the Problems of Taiwan’s Democracy
A look at Taiwan’s history and problems, including one the West is not familiar enough with—Tai Ji Men.
The Tai Ji Men Case: How Discrimination Escalated
We live in tragic days, which reminds us that discrimination can easily escalate to persecution and violence.
The Rome Model and the Tai Ji Men Case
Intolerance becomes discrimination, and discrimination becomes persecution. This is what happened to Tai Ji Men.
Discrimination, Religion, and Tai Ji Men
The right to non-discrimination and freedom of religion or belief may conflict. International case law has dictated some rules to harmonize them.
Tai Ji Men: 25 Years of Discrimination
On the United Nations Zero Discrimination Day, scholars and human rights activists discuss the continuing discrimination of Tai Ji Men.
“Justice Being Taken Away, Then, What Are Kingdoms But Great Robberies?”
Augustine’s words in his famous “The City of God” brilliantly epitomize the abyss of a state where social justice fails. Is this what Tai Ji Men is suffering since a quarter of a century?
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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