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Parliaments and Freedom of Religion or Belief: Italy and Taiwan
Do legislative assemblies protect religious liberty? They should, but they do not always succeed, particularly when a country emerges from a non-democratic past.
Parliament as Theatre and the Tai Ji Men Case
The ineffectiveness of the Legislative Yuan in keeping rogue bureaucrats in check is part of a global crisis of parliamentarianism.
The Tai Ji Men Case: Why Did the Parliament Fail?
Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan tried to restore justice, but failed—why? Experts offered their answers on International Day of Parliamentarianism.
Misusing Taxes Against Religious Freedom: A Statement Was Filed at UN Human Rights Council
CAP-LC’s text documents a growing international problems, citing cases in France and the Tai Ji Men case in Taiwan
The Strange Case of Mrs. Huang
A woman peacefully protesting within the framework of the Tai Ji Men tax protests was arrested and mistreated.
Music, Education, and the Tai Ji Men Case: A New Study by Susan Wang-Selfridge
A paper presented at an international conference held in Warsaw in January has now been published.
The Swiss Mountain Villa: A Casualty in the Tai Ji Men Case
How a beautiful property intended for a spiritual academy was half-destroyed by the maneuvers and carelessness of rogue tax bureaucrats.
The Roman Empire, Taxes, and the Tai Ji Men Case
Corruption of tax bureaucrats can destroy even the mightiest empires. This is why the Tai Ji Men protest should be supported.
Bitter Winter and the Tai Ji Men Tax Case
Our magazine has published several articles about this Taiwanese problem. There is a reason for this.
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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