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TAIWAN: International forum on the eve of Taiwan’s Judicial Day – HRWF director’s address
Thank you for giving me the floor on this important judicial day in Taiwan. I’m assuming that quite a number of people in Europe and North America watching this conference may not know the history of the Judicial Day commemorated in Taiwan.
EASSSR: Tai Ji Men Case Discussed by Leading Asian Scholarly Association
The East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s 4th annual meeting featured a session on “New Religious Movements in Taiwan.”
TAIWAN: Education, Conscience and Tax Justice: Reflecting on the Tai Ji Men Case
The title of this conference “Education, Conscience and Tax Justice” is quite appropriate for Tai Ji Men’s never-ending fight for Justice, and all the speakers who have preceded me have abundantly illustrated the content of the book “Who Stole Their Youth?”
“Cults,” “Xie Jiao,” “Religious Fraud”: Misusing Labels and the Tai Ji Men Case
Tai Ji Men was accused of being a “cult” or a “religious fraud.” These labels do not mean anything and are used as tools to discriminate and persecute.
“Cults,” Music, and Discrimination
Words may be easily used to discriminate against religious or spiritual groups. There are examples even in music,
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.
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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