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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.
Who Stole Their Youth? The Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan. A New Movie.
Who Stole Their Youth? The Tai Ji Men case in Taiwan. A story of suffering, resilience, and protest written and directed by Massimo Introvigne.
Effective Parliamentarism and the Tai Ji Men Case
The Tai Ji Men case is a distressing example of Taiwan’s failure to live up to its democratic promises.
Parliamentarism and Human Rights: The French Example and the Tai Ji Men Case
French history proves that countries with democratically elected Parliaments can nonetheless abuse human rights. This is true for Taiwan, too.
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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