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Calling for a Solution of the Tai Ji Men Case
Tai Ji Men was among the victims of the 1996 crackdown on those religious movements that were accused of not having supported the ruling party in the...
The Tai Ji Men Case at the CESNUR 2022 Conference
Scholars and dizi presented papers on different angles of the 25-year-old case at Quebec City’s Université Laval
The Tai Ji Men Case: A Test for Taiwan’s Compliance with the Two Covenants
Taiwan’s government initiated the process of preparing reports on the rights protected by the two Covenants, and in 2013, an independent Review Committee with experts from nine different countries was invited to review these reports.
Human and Humane Ecology: Where Tolkien Meets Tai Ji Men
Could the harmony reigning among Tai Ji Men dizi be the reason bureaucrats persecute it? The answer may lie in a literary myth.
Tai Ji Men: Taiwan’s Problems with the “Two Covenants” Discussed at the U.N. Human Rights Council
The Tai Ji Men case proves that Taiwan has not implemented yet the human rights covenants it introduced into its domestic law, a written statement says.
Conscience, Disasters, and Tai Ji Men
The modern study of disasters confirms that even in natural catastrophes the corrupted bureaucrats’ lack of conscience play a destructive role.
“Integral Ecology” and the Tai Ji Men Case
“Environment,” as Pope Francis explained in “Laudato Si’,” also includes social institutions, whose technocratic corruption may damage the whole “ecosystem.”
The Meanings of “Environment” and the Tai Ji Men Case
On the eve of United Nations World Environment Day, an international webinar focused on how a “good environment” also requires non-corrupt institutions.
Tai Ji Men: A Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize
It is time for the movement’s contribution to world peace to be recognized and, at the same time, for justice to be restored.
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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