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Tai Ji Men: A Memorable Friendship
On International Friendship Day 2022, scholars, human rights activists, and Tai Ji Men dizi discussed the power of friendship and the Tai Ji Men case.
“That Which We Do Not Remember”: William Kentridge and Transitional Justice in South Africa—and Taiwan
South Africa’s leading contemporary artist offers a reflection on the limits of transitional justice in his country, which is also relevant for Taiwan and the Tai Ji Men case.
The “Road to Freedom” for Tai Ji Men: Restoration Rather than Revolution
Human beings are made for and of liberty. When they lose it, they need a road to recover it—including in Taiwan.
What Taiwan Can Learn from Mandela
The South African leader admitted his mistakes and learned from his errors—something that seems more difficult in the Taiwanese context.
Scholars Discuss Tai Ji Men’s “Road to Freedom”
On Nelson Mandela day, experts and Tai Ji Men dizi discussed freedom, transitional justice, and the fight for human rights.
The Unasked Question in the Tai Ji Men Case: What Do We Mean by the Law?
The laws (plural) exist to affirm the supreme law (singular) of justice. They failed to do so in the case of Tai Ji Men.
The Spectacularization of Justice and the Tai Ji Men Case
When criminal cases become a show and prosecutors manipulate the media, the human rights of the defendants are irreparably affected.
15th Anniversary of Tai Ji Men’s Legal Victory Celebrated
On July 13, 2007, the Supreme Court of Taiwan found Dr. Hong and his co-defendants innocent of all charges. But the Tai Ji Men case continued.
A Short Explanation of the Tai Ji Men Case
Read by Rebecca Wang, a Tai Ji Men dizi (disciple), on July 18, 2022, during the webinar “Tai Ji Men: The Road to Freedom,” and forwarded to international leaders in the religious liberty field.
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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